Extracting all values from multiple menus

Question

Hello all,
Basically I have a jsp that consists of three of what FrontPage calls drop down boxes but I will hereafter call list boxes, each containing a number of options extracted from a database; these values can be moved from one box to another using java script. When I hit a submit button I wish to be able to extract all the values from two of these lists and add them into a database. I know how to extract selected values but I need all the values of both lists regardless of what the user selects and I need the contents of each kept distinct.
Any help provided will be appreciated and I apologize if this question is something all the forum vets have already seen before.
Philip

Answer 1

Only the values that are selected will be submitted
with the form. So, add a call to your form tag's
onSubmit event to call a function like this:<form name='myForm' onsubmit='selectAll()'>
<script language='javascript'>
function selectAll() {
for(i=0; i<myForm.mySelectList.options.length; i++)
myForm.mySelectList.options.selected = true;
// do the same for the other two select lists
</script>
Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately this means that the two list boxes that I want will become intermingled. Is there a way to keep the information in the two lists seperate?
Philip