it did that for me too. oh well, here is a cut/paste of the important post. See if this helps any.
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Tarwn (Programmer) Nov 6, 2002
ACtually this can be done server-side with a text input and a button, to add the value entered in the text input as a new option in the select box and then make it the selected option:
<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
function addNewOption(txtName,selName){
var optionText;
eval("optionText = yourform."+txtName+".value"
;
var elem;
eval("elem = yourform."+selName);
elem.options[elem.options.length] = new Option(optionText,optionText);
elem.selectedIndex = elem.options.length - 1;
eval("yourform."+txtName+".value = '';"
;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body>
<form method=POST action="yourpage.asp" name="yourform">
<select name="selColor">
<option value=""> [Select Color] </option>
<option value="red"> Red </option>
<option value="blue"> Blue </option>
<option value="green"> Green </option>
</select>
<input type="button" value="<<" onClick="addNewOption('txtNewColor','selColor');">
<input type="text" name="txtNewColor">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Basically what this is doing is when the function is called you pass it the name of your input and the name of the select box you wish to add the value to. Then it creates a new option object in the options collection for the select box, assigning it to the bottom of the list. Since the index for the options starts at 0 we can assign the new object to the count of the option (elem.options.length) without being worried that it may already have a value, therefore this will work just as well if you are generating your options from ASP. Be forewarned, I just wrote this so it may have adverse side effects in some browsers, I meant it mainly just as an example.
-Tarwn
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Kris
