SELECT tag DropDown display changed

[rparmar]

Q: I have a DropDown-Box as below:-
<SELECT id=selNAMES NAME=selNAMES>
<OPTION selected value=""></OPTION>
<OPTION value="John Smith">1 John Smith</OPTION>
<OPTION value="Alvin Kyle">2 Alvin Kyle</OPTION>
</SELECT>

when user selects one of the two name options;
it shold ONLY display John Smith not the number 1 and
likewise if user chooses option 2; it should only
display Alvin Kyle;

DropDown optins remain the same (as above with number 1 & 2)

Thank you.

[kdjoergensen]

<SELECT id=selNAMES NAME=selNAMES onchange="this.options[this.selectedIndex].value=((this.options[this.selectedIndex].value).substring(2))">

[rparmar]

<SELECT id=selNAMES NAME=selNAMES onchange="this.options[this.selectedIndex].value=((this.options[this.selectedIndex].value).substring(2))">

the above did not work;
I changed it to
<SELECT id=selNAMES NAME=selNAMES onchange="this.options[this.selectedIndex].text=((this.options[this.selectedIndex].text).substring(2))">
and it works fine except that dropdown options are loosing 1 and 2 numbers as well when i click again to choose another option;

THX.
RAJ

[kdjoergensen]

Try:

onchange="this.options[this.selectedIndex].value=(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)">

The substring(2) is what removed the numbers 1,2 (I thought that was what you were after ??)

[rparmar]

the value in the select tag is ok; ie without the numbers;
the text displayed of the selected option needs to be removed when chosen; but the dropdown text remains tha same ie. the text property of the select tag should have numbers although the display does not show the numbers of text(not value)

THX

[kdjoergensen]

Ok, sorry, I now understand. Yes, you are correct. The property should then be .text instead of .value. You are absolutely correct.
Great job..

[rparmar]

Ok so now the problem is the display shows OK (without numbers); but the dropdown options are without numbers since we substringed it;
the problem not solved!
dropdown should have number(.text); display as we know are without numbers;

THX

[scoutt]

this is going to sound stupid but bare with me, just take the number out :P

<OPTION value="John Smith">John Smith</OPTION>
<OPTION value="Alvin Kyle">Alvin Kyle</OPTION>

why have the numbers, people know how to count, if you are placing the numbers there for a reason, like a placement value (who came in first place and who was runner up scenerio) and you are loading them from a DB jsut make it so the order is by a certain thing.

[rparmar]

THX.
Super furry guru for your interest in this !!!!

The reason is that you can use 1 or 111 to go to 111 direct from keyboard;
but more importantly this is used for select element being populated by recordset from two fields of database; field1 being the number associated with username; ie userid; and field2 is the username itself; Problem is that if i have another field (userid) to populate it based on user dynamically at clientside all i have to do is select the option with number(userid) and USerID field will populate itself before submitting; nobody likes to type in the use ids etc...
THX