Small bit of javascript help please

AARRRGH · 03-07-2008 6:18pm #1

Hello

I would really appreciate some help on this.

The website is www.tempjobs.ie

1. The user selects the location "Cork", enters her details and then submits her application.
2. On the confirmation page, she notices she made a mistake so she hits the back button.

Problem: the location "Cork" will be correctly selected, however the agency list will be for Dublin.

Does anyone know how I can force the agency list to update to the correct location, i.e. Cork?

Note the agency list updates based on which location is selected, and it uses a simple javascript "if location==whatever" to figure out which agencies to display.

For some reason when the back button is pressed, it always thinks the location is Dublin. I think this is because the location only changes if the "onchange" method is called. If course, there is no "onchange", I just want it to remember what it was set to a minute ago.

Can this be done?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks!

NotMe · 03-07-2008 8:27pm

You have <body onload="agency('Dublin');">
so when the page loads it sets the agency list to the Dublin one.

You wanna do something like <body onload="agency();">
and change the agency() function to

function agency(){
   var location = document.getElementById("location").value;
   if(location == "Dublin") {
   ....

}

and the select box to:

<select id="location" onchange="agency();">

AARRRGH · 06-07-2008 8:49pm

That worked perfectly. Thank you for taking them time to help me.

AARRRGH · 10-07-2008 2:09pm

Actually, I just noticed your javascript change is causing the agencies list to _not_ display in Firefox.

Do you have any idea why this is?

Eoin · 10-07-2008 5:13pm

dublindude wrote: »

Actually, I just noticed your javascript change is causing the agencies list to _not_ display in Firefox.

Do you have any idea why this is?

Could be a few reasons for that:

You are using document.getElementById(), but the form field doesn't have an ID just a NAME.

Also, the function still takes a location input parameter, but the onload event doesn't send one in.

AARRRGH · 11-07-2008 9:50pm

Hi Eoin

Thanks for your message, you pointed me in the right direction. Adding id="location" to the <select> sorted it out.

Cheers.

Small bit of javascript help please

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