display multiple text boxes based on user selection?

[tiff]

hello!

how do you have it so when a user selects a number value from a drop-down menu [values 1 to 12], based on the number value they have selected that number of text boxes will display below?

thank you very much!

kind regards,
tiff*

[buntine]

After the user has made a selection and submitted the form, you just need to capture that data and then use a loop to print the corresponding amount of text boxes.

Dim amount, i
amount = CInt(Request.Form("yourSelectBox"))

For i = 0 To amount
   Response.Write ("<input type=""text"" name=""someName"" /><br />")
Next

Regards.

[tiff]

hey buntine!

thanks so much for your help - i really appreciate it! But is there a way to do this right AFTER the user has made a selection from the drop-down menu - without the user having to submit the form? or can that only be done with javascript? if so, would you know the syntax for outputting text boxes within a javascript function? i think i know how to write the code using the logic behind the asp code that you provided, but i don't know the specific syntax for outputting text boxes within a javascript for loop.

thank you very much!

kind regards,
tiff*

[buntine]

Yeah, that is something only a client-side language can acheive. So, this is really a JavaScript question now. But we may as well continue the conversation here.

You will need to create a JavaScript function that is called when the user makes a selection in the drop down list.

<select id="numBoxes" onchange="displayTextboxes();">
 ...
</select>

Now the function:

function displayTextboxes()
{
   var lstItems = document.getElementById('numBoxes');
   var amount  = lstItems.options[lstItems.selectedIndex].value;

   for (var i = 0; i < amount; i++)
      document.write('<input type=\'text\' name=\'someName\' /><br />');
}

Something like that should work.

Regards.

[tiff]

thank you very much buntine!

that's great!! very helpful!

kind regards,
tiff*

[buntine]

Your welcome