How do i put my option value to a textfield the moment i choose a value?

Question

here is my code:

<input name="type" type="text" disabled="disabled" size="50" value="<?=$type;?>">

<select name="selectType">

<option value="Investor">Investor</option>

<option value="Non-investor">Non-investor</optio...

</select>

i want to put the option value to the textfield every after i selected a new value..

please help

how do i do this?

Answer 1

You&#039;ll need to use JavaScript. Try something like this:

&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&gt;

&lt;!--

function updateField ()

{

document.forms[&#039;yourformname&#039;].element... = document.forms[&#039;yourformname&#039;].elements[...

}

--&gt;

&lt;/script&gt;

Replace yourformname with your form&#039;s name attribute.

Then, add the onchange attribute to your select, like so:

&lt;select name=&quot;selectType&quot; onchange=&quot;updateField()&quot;&gt;

&lt;option value=&quot;Investor&quot;&gt;Investor&lt;/option&gt;

[and so on]

&lt;/select&gt;.

You could also modify it so that your function accepts a field name, like so:

function updateField (x,y)

{

document.forms[&#039;yourformname&#039;].element... = document.forms[&#039;yourformname&#039;].elements[...

}

Then your select statement could look like:

&lt;select name=&quot;selectType&quot; onchange=&quot;updateField(this.name, &#039;YourTextFieldName&#039;)&quot;&gt;

(replacing YourTextFieldName with the name of the text field

OR

&lt;select name=&quot;selectType&quot; onchange=&quot;updateField(&#039;selectType&#039;, &#039;type&#039;)&quot;&gt;

Hope this helps ;-)

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