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gar

i need a hand with writing something for a webpage.
what i need is basically a combo box with a few options in it. when you setect one of the options the information on that option appears in a text box beside the combo box.
this make sence or am i rambling?

photty

you need javascript for something like that. I'm not into JS but sounds like you need a small script that is triggered on selection of the drop down menu. It should read the value of the menu and write this to the named text box. Have a look at any scripts around the web and it should be fairly obvious how to hack something together to do this...

The Corinthian

Here's a quickie:

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="blah.cgi" name="foo">
	<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="txtbox">
	<SELECT NAME="oplist" onChange="foo.txtbox.value=foo.oplist.value">
		<OPTION VALUE=""></OPTION>
		<OPTION VALUE="Value 1">Value 1</OPTION>
		<OPTION VALUE="Value 2">Value 2</OPTION>
		<OPTION VALUE="Value 3">Value 3</OPTION>
	</SELECT>
</FORM>

I'm almost certain that NS will bork at this, and you may need to use the selectedIndex property in a more cross platform version. But that's the basic idea.