HTTP Forms question

belorion · 12-17-2004, 11:53 AM

Yeah, I know that most don't consider HTML "programming", but I figure this is the best place to ask the question.

I have a webpage which has a form in it. In this form is a drop box... this drop box is *very* large, and I basically have 6 different dropboxes with the same options in the drop. In other words, I have 6 very large drop boxes which all have the same options.

As a result, my page renders rather slowly. Is there a way to tell the drop box to use the same options as another? I figure this might be accomplished with javascript, but I wasn't sure how to go about implementing it.

Thanks.

david_ross · 12-17-2004, 12:14 PM

Probably the simplest way would be with javascript like:

Code:

<script language="javascript">
options="<option>Option 1</option><option>Option 2</option><option>Option 3</option>";

document.write('List 1 <select name="list1">'+options+'</select><br>');
document.write('List 2 <select name="list2">'+options+'</select><br>');
document.write('List 3 <select name="list3">'+options+'</select><br>');
</javascript>

belorion · 12-17-2004, 02:24 PM

That looks perfect, thanks!