Thanks James for that tip.
Still looking for how to pass a var from one event function to
another...
On Aug 12, 4:28 pm, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do with the change()
> function...
> You know you can get the value of a select just with val(). You don't
> have to loop through each option to find which is selected.
>
> <select id="mySelect">
> <option value="1">1</option>
> <option value="2">2</option>
> </select>
>
> var myVal = $("#mySelect").val(); // 1 or 2
>
> On Aug 12, 1:18 pm, Nic Hubbard <nnhubb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am confused about how to do this the right way.
>
> > I have a change event which grabs the value of the selected option
> > list and sets that as a var. But, I would like to add that to the end
> > of my post string when I submit the form, how would I do this?
>
> > $('select').change(function() {
>
> > $('select option:selected').each(function() {
>
> > var my_val = $(this).val();
>
> > });//end each
>
> > });//end change
>
> > $('#my_submit').submit(function() {
>
> > var action = $('form').attr('action');
> > // How do I get my_val variable into here??
> > $('form').attr('action', action + 'new_parm=' + my_val);
>
> > });
