Question

I have a drop-down list. After a user selects a language, the selected language is sent to the server. I want to show the selected values on the selected option button.

For example, a user selects a “de”, I wish “de'” is displayed on the form, instead of “en”.

How can I do this? Thanks

<form name="languages" method="post"> 
    <select name="langSelect" onchange=""> 
       <option>en (default)</option> 
       {% for ele in comments.languages.all %} 
           <option>{{ele.lang}}</option> 
       {% endfor %} 
    </select> 
    <div><a  onclick="submitform()">Submit</a></div> 
</form> 

Answer 1

First off, why is your button not a Submit button? If it submits the form you should use <input type="submit">Submit</input>

If you use jQuery, then you can say:

var selectedVal = $("#langSelect").val();
$("#languages submit").val(selectedVal);

I would put this in one statement but did it like this for clarity.

One other thing, you should use the id attribute as well/instead of just Name.