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Hey Justin,

I bring this up since you have a submit button there already - why is it
necessary that the form submits as soon as one option is chosen?  Why not
just use a standard pulldown menu, and submit with a button?  You're
assuming that someone isn't going to make a mistake if you do it the way you
have it.  However, if you want to do it that way, take a look at the
OnChange event rather than OnClick - I'm fairly certain that pulldown menu
items can't use the OnClick event.  OnChange applies to the whole menu, and
will perform the action as soon as the menu changes.  This means you should
add a "blank" menu option as your original selected item (which reminds me,
you have both sub-category options marked as selected -

--
<STRONG>Sub Category: </STRONG><SELECT size=1 name=SUB>
            <OPTION value="AGP" Selected <----------------------
"OnClick:submitForm()">AGP</OPTION>
            <OPTION value="PCI" Selected <----------------------
"OnClick:submitForm()">PCI</OPTION>
            </SELECT>
--

Here's how to do it with OnChange, best I can figure:

<select size=1 name=SUB OnChange="submitForm()">
<option SELECTED>Choose a Sub-Category</option>
<option value="AGP">AGP</option>
<option value="PCI">PCI</option>
</select>
<noscript>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Click to Submit">
</noscript>

That <noscript> portion allows for people who don't have browsers supporting
JavaScript, or have that capability shut off for some reason.  It will only
add the submit button in that case.

That should help out a bit!

- Erik
http://www.baron-inc.net




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