Good morning all,

I'm trying to figure out how to properly populate a select field in an html form with javascript. I have set an onload event in the body that will automatically populate the field when the page is loaded. I just can't seem to find the right command to make the js function populate the field.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

See http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/selectcontent.shtml

Note that search engines and browsers without JS cannot see the changes.


Why use JS for this then? A server-side script is more reliable.

My thoughts exactly.

If this "prepopulation" consists simply of fixed values, you can replace the JS by writing the values directly in the html. No server-side script at all.

If the "prepopulation" involves variable values, you will need a server-side anyway, in order to write the javascript to put them in the form. So you can remove the JS by writing them directly into the html.

In both cases the js serves no purpose at all.