Hi
The below script does the job I am looking for
I am not to sure how to make the drop down dependant
ex ; Val 1 in box one return Val1 in Box 2 etc..
any idea someone
Sydney
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
// hard-coded inside the function.
function populate() {
var sel1 = document.getElementById("list1")
var sel2 = document.getElementById("list2")
var sel3 = document.getElementById("list3")
var sel4 = document.getElementById("list4")
var sel5 = document.getElementById("list5")
var result = new Array()
if (sel1.options[sel1.selectedIndex].value!="?") {
result.push(sel1.options[sel1.selectedIndex].value)
}
if (sel2.options[sel2.selectedIndex].value!="?") {
result.push(sel2.options[sel2.selectedIndex].value)
}
if (sel3.options[sel3.selectedIndex].value!="?") {
result.push(sel3.options[sel3.selectedIndex].value)
}
if (sel4.options[sel4.selectedIndex].value!="?") {
result.push(sel4.options[sel4.selectedIndex].value)
}
if (sel5.options[sel5.selectedIndex].value!="?") {
result.push(sel5.options[sel5.selectedIndex].value)
}
// populate the selected value into text boxes
for (var i=0; i<result.length; i++) {
document.getElementById("box"+(i+1)).value = result[i]
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
Selection 1: <select id="list1">
<option value="?">No Seletion</option>
<option value="list1Val1">val1</option>
<option value="list1Val2">val2</option>
<option value="list1Val3">Val3</option>
<option value="list1Val4">Val4</option>
</select>
<br />
Selection 2: <select id="list2">
<option value="?">No Selection</option>
<option value="list2Val1">Val1</option>
<option value="list2Val2">Val2</option>
<option value="list2Val3">Val3</option>
<option value="list2Val4">Val4</option>
</select>
<br />
Selection 3: <select id="list3">
<option value="?">No Selction</option>
<option value="list3Val1">Val1</option>
<option value="list3Val2">Val2</option>
<option value="list3Val3">Val3</option>
<option value="list3Val4">Val4</option>
</select>
<br />
Selection 4: <select id="list4">
<option value="?">No select</option>
<option value="list4Val1">Val1</option>
<option value="list4Val2">Val2</option>
<option value="list4Val3">Val3</option>
<option value="list4Val4">Val4</option>
</select>
<br />
Selection 5: <select id="list5">
<option value="?">No select</option>
<option value="list5Val1">Val1</option>
<option value="list5Val2">Val2</option>
<option value="list5Val3">Val3</option>
<option value="list5Val4">Val4</option>
</select>
<br /><br />
<input type="button" value="Finish" onclick="populate()">
<br /><br />
<input type="text" id="box1" size="10">
<input type="text" id="box2" size="10">
<input type="text" id="box3" size="10">
<input type="text" id="box4" size="10">
<input type="text" id="box5" size="10">
</body>
</html>