[anarchoi]

Hi,

I have a form script with a dropdown box listing a lot of albums in this format:
"The Band - Name of the album"

there is another feild the users have to fill, it's a textbox where you have to write the band name. This is just making things harder for my members since the band name is already written in the album name, but filling the textbox is required for the process.

what i would like to do is the following:

When a user either click the submit button, or automaticaly when the dropdown box value is changed:
Automaticaly copy ONLY the text BEFORE the " - " from the dropdown to the textbox


Example:
If user select entry "abcdefg - hijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" from the dropdown, then:
Write "abcdefg" in the textbox



THANKS A LOOOT!

[UnrealEd]

i think you will have to choose a different character than "-", cause some bands have a hyphen in their name. I'd go for the # sign, as i don't know any bands with it in their name (however i non of the bands in your list have a hyphen, you can use that). This will work i think:

function displayArtist(){
  var artist_and_album = document.getElementById('dropdown').value;
  var array = artist_and_album.split(/ # /); // here's the # character. replace it with - if you want
  document.getElementById('artist').value = array[0];
} 

and this is the html:

HTML Code:

<select id="dropdown" onchange="displayArtist()">
  <option value="Dire Straits # Private Investigations">Dire Straits - Private Investigations</option>
  <option value="The Rolling Stones # Ruby Tuesday">The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday</option>
  <option value="The Beatles # Hey Jude">The Beatles - Hey Jude</option>
</select>

<input type="text" id="artist" /><

Hope this help you out . It's no tested though

cheers