Question

What I am trying to do is when a item is selected from my dropdown menu, it would make a input box appear with the description selected on the dropdown menu, so that it can be edited and updated back into the database,

I am unsure how to handle the javascript:

Dropdown Code:

<select name="captionSelect" id="captionSelect">
    <?php foreach ($get_images as $image){
        echo '<option value="'.$image['id'].'">'.$image['description'].'</option>';
    };
    ?>

</select>

Answer 1

Assuming your input has id ‘captionInput’, here’s a sample code to show the input with dropdown’s selected value:

$('#captionSelect').change(function(){
    $('#captionInput').val($("#captionSelect option:selected").text()).show();
});