dynamically select dropdown option

[sqoti]

Please Help if you can. I am working on a site that allows searches from many places, mainly from one search box in a top banner, but also from some pages located within the site. On one of my pages I allow a search that only searches that pages' content. This is built in, the user knows it is just searching that page, and it does it automatically. When the search results come up, I have a dropdown list that shows the different pages that are searchable(subsearch). The user has the option to pick that page to search on from the dropdown.

This is what I would like to do. When a search is performed from page A, I want the results page to focus on page A in the dropdown. Same situation goes for any page a user searches. If user is searching Page X, I want page X to show up in the dropdown list on the results page.

I have tried the following, but it doesn't work for some reason.

In the results page, I have a onload to perform a function that has

document.formname.dropdownname.options[indexofPage].selected = true;

If you know of a way to make this work you will be a life saver.

Thanks in advance!!!!

Sqoti

 

[jemminger]

try

document.formname.dropdownname.selectedIndex = indexOfDesiredOption;




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try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }
-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

 

[sqoti]

Thanks Jeff,

I figured out what I was doing before was correct, but had soem syntax errors in it. I appreciate your help though and I learned a different way to code that...


Scott