Hi Scott,
I may not understand the details of your situation, but it seems you are
quite close to the first part of a solution (I am no expert either).
Could you just give each of your <select> fields a common class name as well
as the unique id:
<select id="type_1" class="dynamicSelects">
<!-- options here -->
</select>
<select id="type_2" class="dynamicSelects">
<!-- options here -->
</select>
And then your jQuery code could look like something this?
$("select.dynamicSelects").change(function() {
var type = $(this).val();
$.post("/ajax/get_material_list.php", {type:type}, function(xml) {
... function body to process the xml results here...
)};
)};
That would apply your operation to all of the <select> fields that were
assigned class="dynamicSelects". And if you had all of these <select> fields
inside a container such as a <fieldset> tag that had an id),
<form>
<fieldset id="magicSelectFields">
<select id="type_1">
<!-- options here -->
</select>
<select id="type_2">
<!-- options here -->
</select>
</fieldset>
</form>
then you could avoid having to add a class to every select field and just
make your jQuery code "select" your select boxes like this:
$("#magicSelectFields select").change(function() {
var type = $(this).val();
$.post("/ajax/get_material_list.php", {type:type}, function(xml) {
... function body to process the xml results here...
)};
)};
You can Google "CSS Selectors" to learn more about the various ways to
specify particular elements and groups of elements within a document. There
is a lot of flexibility in this department.
This doesn't really help with any of the ajax-y stuff you're trying to do,
but that's a question for someone other than me. :)
Cheers,
-THEO-
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Sharkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:59 AM
To: discuss@jquery.com
Subject: [jQuery] [Fwd: How to Add HTML to a page, and make it "active"?]
I *think* that I can do something like:
$("#type_1").change(function() {
var type = $("#type_1").val();
$.post("/ajax/get_material_list.php", {type:type}, function(xml) {
... function body to process the xml results here...
)};
)};
except, of course that "#type_1" above needs to be a Javascript variable
string, rather than a constant.
-Scott
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