Thanks - worked great.
On Jul 11, 8:33 pm, "Michael Geary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does this work?
>
> $('#select_project').html(options).attr({ size: ''+dropsize });
>
> -Mike
>
> p.s. I note that you're taking care to use double quotes for your HTML
> attributes - that's a Good Thing. A suggestion: Instead of having to keep
> track of when to use double quotes for your JavaScript strings and when to
> use single quotes (because there's a double quote inside the string), I've
> found it easier to simply use single quotes for all of my JavaScript strings
> - then I only have to switch to double quoted strings in the much rarer
> cases where I need a single quote inside the string. (Of course you can
> always use backslash, but that's ugly.)
>
> > How do I dynamically change size of select box depending on
> > the number of responses retreived froma getJSON [code]
> > $.getJSON("select.php",
> > {project:"%" }, function(json){
> > var dropsize=json.length +2;
> > var options = "";
> > options += '<option value="%">All Projects</option>';
> > for (var i = 0; i < json.length; i++) {
> > options += '<option value="'+json[i]['project']+'">'+json[i]
> > ['project']+'</option>';
> > }
> > $("#select_project").html(options);
> > [/code]
> > now I want to set the select box to have a size=dropsize for
> > example if the getJSON returned 8, dropsize=8 and the select
> > would look like
>
> > <select id="select_project" name="select_project" size="8">
