new Option Select Box problem

[johrik]

Hi all,

When the user selects Select Box 1 certain options are created (via a function) and populated in box 2. What I want to do is to remember the option selected in Box 2 and show this once the form has been submitted.

The application does know what was selected in Box 2 as when I do an alert it is displayed. But when I do:

document.predealform.selectBoxName.value = valueOfSecondBox nothing is shown...This is prob as once the page has been submitted I recall a function which remembers what was selected in box 1 and populates box 2.

Problem is that the Box 2 value shown is not the one selected rather the one that is created via the new Option("") code first in the list...

Can some one advise me further please?

[phpnovice]

If you're talking about when the page is reloaded then, onload, you must execute the function which takes the value of Select #1 and loads the appropriate options into Select #2. Lastly, your onload function could then select the option in Select #2 -- if one had been previously selected.