I have this form below which is perfect for my needs with dependent fields. What I would like to do is when someone selects one of the subcategories (ie: Beddings), they would then be transferred to a url (ex: http://www.beddings.com). But this is far beyond my understanding!
Any help would be appreciated!
Here is a demo of this form: http://www.tamilcodes.com/demopages/jsdropdownlist.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function dropdownlist(listindex)
{
document.formname.subcategory.options.length = 0;
switch (listindex)
{
case "Home Ware" :
document.formname.subcategory.options[0]=new Option("Select Sub-Category","");
document.formname.subcategory.options[1]=new Option("Air-Conditioners/Coolers","Air- Conditioners/Coolers");
document.formname.subcategory.options[2]=new Option("Audio/Video","Audio/Video");
document.formname.subcategory.options[3]=new Option("Beddings","Beddings");
document.formname.subcategory.options[4]=new Option("Camera","Camera");
document.formname.subcategory.options[5]=new Option("Cell Phones","Cell Phones");
break;
case "Education" :
document.formname.subcategory.options[0]=new Option("Select Sub-Category","");
document.formname.subcategory.options[1]=new Option("Colleges","Colleges");
document.formname.subcategory.options[2]=new Option("Institutes","Institutes");
document.formname.subcategory.options[3]=new Option("Schools","Schools");
document.formname.subcategory.options[4]=new Option("Tuitions","Tuitions");
document.formname.subcategory.options[5]=new Option("Universities","Universities");
break;
case "Books" :
document.formname.subcategory.options[0]=new Option("Select Sub-Category","");
document.formname.subcategory.options[1]=new Option("College Books","College Books");
document.formname.subcategory.options[2]=new Option("Engineering","Engineering");
document.formname.subcategory.options[3]=new Option("Magazines","Magazines");
document.formname.subcategory.options[4]=new Option("Medicine","Medicine");
document.formname.subcategory.options[5]=new Option("References","References");
break;
}
return true;
}
</script>
</head>
<title>Dynamic Drop Down List</title>
<body>
<form id="formname" name="formname" method="post" action="submitform.asp" >
<table width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td width="41%" align="right" valign="middle">Category :</td>
<td width="59%" align="left" valign="middle"><select name="category" id="category" onchange="javascript: dropdownlist(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);">
<option value="">Select Category</option>
<option value="Home Ware">Home Ware</option>
<option value="Education">Education</option>
<option value="Books">Books</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right" valign="middle">Sub Category :
</td>
<td align="left" valign="middle"><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
document.write('<select name="subcategory"><option value="">Select Sub- Category</option> </select>')
</script>
<noscript><select name="subcategory" id="subcategory" >
<option value="">Select Sub-Category</option>
</select>
</noscript></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Not sure if you’re looking to actually POST to the form; if not, you can use your Option structure to store your target paths, create a function to navigate to urls, and call from the onChange event of your second dropdown ie:
Also: