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Hello there!

I am trying to use cookie to compare to a dropdown and preselect the dropdown upon a match.

Here is what I am trying so far...


This doesn't even persist the dropdown selection in the same session. I don't see the pop-ups (alert and prompt) neither. And same when I log back in, it won't show my previous selection (in my last session) .

What is the right way to achieve this!

thanks a lot!
 
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where's your preselect thing getting called? is it using: ?
 
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Trilochan Bharadwaj wrote:where's your preselect thing getting called? is it using: ?



Hi Trilochan,

I re-examined my code, and made changes. You are right. I am using onload, here is my code:



I get error on line 96,


line 60,


I am not able to get the "dropdown option" selected by the user and also "all the items in the dropdown"
 
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You are never calling the code to set the cookie value.

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Eric Pascarello wrote:You are never calling the code to set the cookie value.

Eric



Hi,
I made the corrections. Now I am getting undefined value (value for g in the code below), when I try to get the user selection from the dropdown. I am setting value of g in line 28.


I also get null error while getting the dropdown list (line 29, dl) to loop through and compare the cookie value.

Thanks!
 
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not sure why you would be using this there. This scope would be the window and not the form.

document.formName.elementName
or
document.getElementById("elementId")

would be the correct way to access a form element.

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Eric Pascarello wrote:not sure why you would be using this there. This scope would be the window and not the form.

document.formName.elementName
or
document.getElementById("elementId")

would be the correct way to access a form element.

Eric



I followed your code and had it working. But the code is only getting executed when the screen gets loaded (all my code is in window.onload). The form has a button (along with dropdown). In the onSubmit I again have to call setCookie with the new user selection (in dropdown).

How to call javascript inside form element ?

Thanks a lot!
 
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I'd use attachEventListener personally.

Trilochan.
 
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Trilochan Bharadwaj wrote:
I'd use attachEventListener personally.

Trilochan.



I didn't get your point. My form code is like this.


The code for button (go) is on line 9. How to relate function "setCookie" with the button. I have to associate 2 things with the onSubmit, one is to call an application which I am doing in the line 3, the second one is to call a javascript function "setCookie". Is it possible to associate two actions with onSubmit.

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ah i c ... so do you want those things to be invoked in order?

well this is off the bat, but you'd do this:


Hope this helps!
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I tried both options. Somehow, I am not able to associate setCookie with "onSubmit" button of the form. Is this because, I am going to a different page upon onSubmit click ?

As a result, the cookie is never set. Can you give me sample code as to how to write a javascript function inside form element.

 
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Well you have onsubmit connected to something that is being called on server side, for the form, use onclick for the button and not onsubmit.
 
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paste the code you're trying at the moment, I'll sift through it once I get out of the office ... I hope you're not in a rush.

Trilochan.
 
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I got it, I referred this link

Thanks a lot for your patience!
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