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Javascript for multiple selection from pulldown menu

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anirdesh

3:56 pm on Nov 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Q: I would like to select years from pull down menu and store it values in a variable calles yearlist. Next, pass the value of this yearlist to the next
html document say cnty2005.html. User selects year 1999,2000,2001 then yearlist should be : yearlist=1999,2000,2001. I am novice programmer and
learning Javascript.

Please correct my code below.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.06 [en] (Win95; U) [Netscape]">
<TITLE> Limits</TITLE>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">

</SCRIPT>

</HEAD>

<!--DATABASE DSN=lmts -->

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFFF" TEXT="#666666" LINK="#CC6600" ALINK="#CC6600"
VLINK="#CC6600" topMARGIN="0" LEFTMARGIN="0" MARGINWIDTH="0"
MARGINHEIGHT="0">
<P><CENTER>
<FONT FACE="Arial, Verdana, Comic Sans MS, Sans-serif" SIZE="5"
COLOR="#006699">
<B>XYZ Division</B><BR>

</FONT>
<br>
<BR>
<FONT FACE="Arial, Verdana, Comic Sans MS, Sans-serif" SIZE="4"
COLOR="#006699">
<B>XYZ Limits System</B>
</BR>
</FONT>
<BR>

</FONT>

</CENTER>
</P>
<center>
<FORM NAME="typeyears" METHOD=POST
ACTION="/LL/scripts/odbic.exe/LL/cnty2005.htmL">
<BR>

<LABEL FOR="years">Select Years:<BR><BR></LABEL>
<SELECT MULTIPLE name="years" SIZE=5 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">

<OPTION VALUE=1999>1999
<OPTION VALUE=2000>2000
<OPTION VALUE=2001>2001
<OPTION VALUE=2002>2002
<OPTION VALUE=2003>2003
<OPTION VALUE=2004 SELECTED>2004
</SELECT> <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="? ">
<BR>
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="NEXT" onclick=?>
</FORM>
</body>
</html>

DrDoc

10:05 pm on Nov 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Welcome to WebmasterWorld! [WebmasterWorld.com]

The list of selected years will be automatically passed to the page you submit the form to, so there is really no need to assemble the list manually on this page. In fact, using JavaScript for such an important task is discouraged since it will break for any that has JavaScript turned off.