Hi Folks... One more javascript question... I have a page that consists of date fields as select boxes... say optionDay, optionMonth, optionYear... I fill the selectboxes calling a javascript function... Now if I have values of day, month, year executing an action. How can I default those values in the select box??? I mean how can I make that particular option 'selected'??? I know we can do that by calling a funtion on the load event... But, I don't want to do it that way as my body tag is generic across all pages... I am trying something like this... <script language="javascript"> function generateYear(optionName,defaultValue) { var s = document.forms[0].elements[optionName]; var today = new Date(); var year = today.getYear(); document.write('<select NAME='+optionName+'>'); document.write('<option value="year">Year</option>'); for (var i=(year-4);i<(year+4);i++ ) { document.write('<option value=' + i +'>' + i+'</option>'); } document.write('</select>'); }
function generateDay(optionName,defaultValue){ document.write('<select NAME='+optionName+'>'); document.write('<option value="day">Day</option>'); for (var i=1;i<=31;i++ ) { document.write('<option value=' + i +'>' + i+'</option>'); } document.write('</select>'); } function generateMonth(optionName,defaultValue){ document.write('<select NAME='+optionName+'>'); document.write('<option value="month">Mon</option>'); document.write('<option value="01">Jan</option>'); document.write('<option value="02">Feb</option>'); document.write('<option value="03">Mar</option>'); document.write('<option value="04">Apr</option>'); document.write('<option value="05">May</option>'); document.write('<option value="06">Jun</option>'); document.write('<option value="07">Jul</option>'); document.write('<option value="08">Aug</option>'); document.write('<option value="09">Sep</option>'); document.write('<option value="10">Oct</option>'); document.write('<option value="11">Nov</option>'); document.write('<option value="12">Dec</option>'); document.write('</select>'); } </script> and in my html... I say <script language="javascript"> generateMonth("optStartDtMonth",12); generateDay("optStartDtDay",05); generateYear("optStartDtYear",2000); </script> I want to make 12, 05, 2000 selected on the load of the page... how do I do that??? I am trying doing something like this... var s = document.forms[0].elements[optionName]; if ( s.options[i].value == defaultValue) { s.options[i].selected = true; } On the click of some thing it works -- if I put the code in the generate year or month or day, if fails to recognize the form element!!! Any suggestions appreciated... Thanks in advance... -Jacob --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard