Topic awaiting preservation: show/hide textbox onChange

Will someone please help me out with this?

What I am trying to do is to show a textbox if the user selects "Other" from the select dropdown; and hide the textbox if they select something else. It works in Netscape but not in IE. What do I need to change/add to make it work in IE?

Part 2 is that I would like the focus to automatically go to the new textbox if they select "Other".

Thanx for any input.

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What do I need to change/add to make it work in IE?

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Without seeing your original source, it would be hard to comment on that, don't you think?

Normally, however, these cross-browser issues with select boxes come when programmers try to shortcut things and use lazy scripting methods that seem to be IE only (like referring to the name or ID of an element without the correct prefix). Try referring to your select box like this:

document.forms[0].elements['selectBoxName']

and you should get round most cross-browser issues.

As I said, however, post your code and it will be easier to comment.

Hope this helps,
Dan

i do have a link to the page

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i do have a link to the page

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Sorry - I couldn't (and still cannot) see it.

Dan

Try using selectedIndex instead of value. THe selectedIndex will be a number from 0...7 with "Other" being 7.

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InI said:

The following code works in FF, Moz, IE and Opera on my windows 2000:
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Perfect! Thanks a lot InI.

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BillyRayPreachersSon said:

Sorry - I couldn't (and still cannot) see it.

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It's right up there in the first line of his post; the word 'this' is yellow, indicating that it is a hyperlink.

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Aaah - now I see it. Too late, as ever - maybe I should get new glasses

Ini: I noticed your answer after I had posted mine. Sorry, didn't mean to step on your answer.

BTW, is there a reason to assign the string value to a variable and then test the string value instead of just testing the value of selectedIndex against the number of the item?

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Makes sense. Good idea.

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