Re: Hiding Options in Select

Scott Sauyet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dom.wdf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gale, David wrote:
> For a project, I need to have an option in a select, but which the user
> can't see.  (It's selectable through javascript, so I don't want to just
> remove the option entirely).  All examples I've seen online deal with
> adding/removing options themselves, rather than showing and hiding them.

I think the easiest way to simulate this is to not have the option in 
the dropdown.  Instead, simply have a little javascript that runs on 
form submit which copies the value of the selected option or your 
javascript-only value to a hidden element of the form.  Server-side, 
process that hidden element rather than the actual SELECT one.

Maybe there are server-side considerations that make this more 
difficult, but it should be pretty easy on the client side.

Good luck,

   -- Scott



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