I know there have to be a million tutorials on this, but I can't seem to find any of them. Using onsubmit, how do I pass the value from a select menu to a hidden text field? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Why do you want to do this, if you don't mind me asking?

Anyway, here it is:

<form onsubmit='passSelectValue(this.sel)' [other attributes]>
<select id='sel'>
<option value='one'>one</option>
<option value='two'>two</option>
<option value='three'>three</option>
</select>
<input type='hidden' name='something' id='hiddenField'/>
</form>
<script type='text/javascript'>
function passSelectValues(handle)
{
 document.getElementById('hiddenField').value = handle.options[handle.selectedIndex].value;
}
</script>

If you want to get the text of the selected option instead of the value, use .text instead of .value.

HTH,

Snib

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Snib,

Thank you for taking the time to work on a solution. And I wasn't explaining myself clearly. What I actually wanted was to pass the text value to a hidden field. Sorry about that. What I ended up with is this:

function change_Artist() {
var the_selection = window.document.frmAddItems.mnuSelectArtist;
var the_index = the_selection.selectedIndex;
var the_selected = the_selection.options[the_index].text;
var the_ArtistName = window.document.frmAddItems.txtArtistName.value;
window.document.frmAddItems.txtArtistName.value = the_selected;
    }

...and then calling change_Artist onsubmit. Works nicely - turns out I was getting hung up on syntax errors. It's late...

Thanks again, though.

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