Populating selector dynamically

[Realtoast]

Is it possible to have a selector_2 filtered from from what I have indicated by a selection in selector_1, dynamically, without first having refreshed the page upon #1 being selected.

EXAMPLE, In selector_1 I have a list of types of food from a table, Pasta, Meat, Vegies, etc. I select Pasta. Selector_2 would then use #1's selection to filter and limit its own list from all food to only types of pasta (spaghetti, fettuccini, penne, etc.). I have a good idea how to do this. But, my question is: with cf, is it essential that the page refresh after #1 in order to "set" that id in #1. Or, is it possible to simply have #2 filter from #1 as long as selector_1 has an item selected?

I hope all this makes sense. I am just trying shortcut my learning curve by not spending days trying to do this if it is fundamentally impossible.

Thanks!

[Dan_Bracuk]

You can do it with javascript. If you do a Google Advanced Group Search for anything by me that includes the word etiology you should find an example.

There is also a custom tag out there called TwoSelectsRelated, or something like that.

Or you can google "coldfusion related selects".

[Newsgroup_User · Accepted solution]

It's called CF_TwoSelectsRelated:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1000288

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"Dan Bracuk" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> You can do it with javascript. If you do a Google Advanced Group Search
> for
> anything by me that includes the word etiology you should find an example.
>
> There is also a custom tag out there called TwoSelectsRelated, or
> something
> like that.
>
> Or you can google "coldfusion related selects".
>

[Realtoast]

Thank you! That's good news!