Dropdown onchange event?

[11155]

Hi,
I have a dropdown menu which shows the categories available. When a user
selects one I want the browser to redirect to the selected category.
I now have this code I found on stackoverflow;

<%form_for :cat_form, :url => {:action => :viewflokkur_selected} do

f>%>

    <%= f.select :cat, @cats_for_mt, {:include_blank => "Flokkar
mælitækis"}, :onchange =>
            'window.location.href = "viewflokkur/" +
this.getAttribute("value")'%>
<%end%>

However, "value" appears to be null everytime, so I get thrown to
http://localhost:3000/categories/viewflokkur/null. Is there something I
need to do for this to work, or should I be doing something else? I
don't really understand how to use observer_fields either, but that
seems to be something I should be looking into, is it not?

Best regards,
Sindri

[Tim_Shaffer]

this.getAttribute("value") won't work on a select input, since the
select doesn't have a "value" attribute. Rather, it has a list of
options, and one or more of them are selected.

Try this.selectedIndex.value instead.

[11155]

Tim Shaffer wrote:

this.getAttribute("value") won't work on a select input, since the
select doesn't have a "value" attribute. Rather, it has a list of
options, and one or more of them are selected.

Try this.selectedIndex.value instead.

Thanks for the suggestion, this.selectedIndex.value does not work
though, now I get
http://localhost:3000/categories/viewflokkur/undefined. Anywhere I can
look this up?

[Tim_Shaffer]

Please post the HTML that is output from the form.

[11155]

Hi,

This is the output HTML.

<form action="/categories/viewflokkur_selected" method="post"><div
style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline"><input
name="authenticity_token" type="hidden"
value="B2u5ULNr7IJ/ta0+hiAMBjmjEtTtc/yMAQQvSxFn2d0=" /></div>
            <select id="cat_form_cat" name="cat_form[cat]"
onchange="window.location.href = &quot;viewflokkur/&quot; +
this.selectedIndex.value"><option value="">Flokkar mælitækis</option>
<option value="Almennt">Almennt</option>
<option value="Hjartasjúkraþjálfun">Hjartasjúkraþjálfun</option>
<option value="Lungnasjúkraþjálfun">Lungnasjúkraþjálfun</option>
<option value="Taugasjúkraþjálfun">Taugasjúkraþjálfun</option>
<option
value="Öldrunarsjúkraþjálfun">Öldrunarsjúkraþjálfun</option></select>
          <br><br>
        </form>

BR,
Sindri

[11155]

Hi again,

I've also been trying to solve this using observe_field, and that
'almost' seems to work. Here's the code:

<%=select_tag "cat_selected", options_for_select(@cats_for_mt)%>
<%=observe_field 'cat_selected',
      :url => {:action => :viewflokkur},
      :with => 'cat',
      :method => :get %>

When I change the value, development.log shows this.

Processing CategoriesController#viewflokkur (for 127.0.0.1 at 2010-06-12
12:04:33) [GET]
  Parameters: {"cat"=>"Taugasjúkraþjálfun",
"authenticity_token"=>"B2u5ULNr7IJ/ta0+hiAMBjmjEtTtc/yMAQQvSxFn2d0="}
Rendering template within layouts/main
Rendering categories/viewflokkur
Completed in 21ms (View: 18, DB: 0) | 200 OK
[http://localhost/categories/viewflokkur?cat=Taugasjúkraþjálfun&authenticity_token=B2u5ULNr7IJ%2Fta0%2BhiAMBjmjEtTtc%2FyMAQQvSxFn2d0%3D]

So I should be redirected to 'viewflokkur', but nothing happens in my
browser. Is there something else I need to do?

BR,
Sindri

[11155]

Finally got it working, used this solution;

<%= select_tag "cat_selected", options_for_select(['Flokkar
mælitækis']+@cats_for_mt),
  :onchange => 'window.location.href = "viewflokkur_from_select/" +
this.selectedIndex'%>

That gave me params[:id] = index-selected, so I created this new method
viewflokkur_from_select wich gets @cats_for_mt[params[:id].to_i-1] and
then redirects to viewflokkur with that value as params[:cat]. Not very
pretty, and a whole lot uglier than I expected, but works...

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

[Mutesa]

Hi,
Try this if you wish to have your code clean :
http://railscasts.com/episodes/88-dynamic-select-menus