Very simple cfselect question

Forum|Forum|18 years ago
February 15, 2008
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Hi,

I have a really noob question; what is the easiest way to output the values of a cfselect dropdown to a cfoutput tag on the same page?

I am only interested in puting the values of the dropdown into the cfoutput tag when the user selects on a dropdown item .

Thanks for your time.

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masticwarriorAuthor

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Thank you very much for your help.

I understand what I was doing wrong now.

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masticwarriorAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thanks for the quick reply!

I think what i meant to say with the code i posted is that i am perfectly happy with validating the form on the server AND i have added a submit button to my form (its just not in the code i posted) and the form is "in fact" validating to my CF8 server. However where I am stuck is that I am not sure if there is still is tricky server behavors or other code that i need to add to the form or page itself.
In the code i posted before i still only recieve the first output selection regardless if the submit button is pressed the value of "50" always appears/reappears.

I am still new to CF and i like it a lot but it is a little puzzling that for such a ultra-simple task as what im stuck with i hope that i dont need to write reams and reams of code to do this.

Thank you in advance.

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regardless if the submit button is pressed the value of "50" always appears/reappears.

Are you asking how to to re-select a list item after the form is submitted to itself? You can use the selected attribute of cfselect. It is used to pre-select list items.

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Inspiring

Instead of hard coding the values, create a manual query. Then use the query to populate your cfselect and in your <cfoutput>.

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masticwarriorAuthor

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Thank you very much for responding so quickly as i still consider myself a beginner but im getting there; help like this is greatly appriciated.

The code you gave me worked fine but i am still stuck with the problem that at the <cfoutput> tag, the results display ALL values from the <cfselect> dropdown and not just the selected values by the user.

From examples in CF books and online material, it seems that my code is right, and that i dont need to add any more tags ,but obviously thats not the case.

Thanks in advance for more help.

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