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Asked: 2026-06-01T19:07:43+00:00

I have a basic web page with an HTML5 SELECT object that has 3

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I have a basic web page with an HTML5 SELECT object that has 3 elements populated in it via js/jQuery. I want to take the value selected, and pass the value to a js file that runs a perl script.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="js/main.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="js/RunPerlScript.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <header>
            <h1></h1>
        </header>
        <form name="myForm" method="GET" action="">
            <select id="cdLDAP" onchange="run_script_func(this.textvar 
                  <option/>
            </select>     
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

JS File:

    var selection = #cdLDAP.text
function run_script_func(val){
        window.alert=val;
   }

Based on my PHP admin console I know the script isn’t executing. My Perl script does work as expected, if I run it by itself, so I know it is not that aspect of my code.

Am I using the onchage="" element correctly? and/or is it how the RunPerlScript.js file is structured?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Got the message box to work. The message box was being used to test the script was being called onchange

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="js/main.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="js/RunPerlScript.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <header>
            <h1></h1>
        </header>
        <form name="myForm" method="GET" action="">
            <select id="cdLDAP" onchange="run_script_func(this.value)">
                <option/>
            </select>     
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

    And this is the JS File:

    function run_script_func(val){
        alert(val)
}
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