In need of great help

Question

Hi all,
I know that you get this a lot, but I really need help on
this one. here it goes..
Please someone tell me how to display a recordset field on a
texbox dynamically when a list/menu onchange event is activated.
I have created a list box and its being populated dynamically
from a MSAccess database. What I want to do is to display a data on
a texbox when I select a record from the listbox.
For example:
I have a database(dbEmployee) having one table (tblEmp) with
two fields:
1)Emp ID
2)EmpName
The "EmpID" field is populated on the listbox on my ASP page.
Now all I need to know is how to display the "EmpName" field on the
textbox, and that the data that will be displayed on the textbox is
within the recordset of the data that I selected from the listbox.
A lot is tellin me that I should use javascript, and they are
showing me a tons of codes. You know that being a newbie on ASP
coding is really hard for me to read all those codes. I hope that
you understand what I'm trying to ask. I will be surely grateful
for any help on this. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

In your case, it might be very simple. You say the empID is
in the list
box, so I assume the EmpID is the value of the option and the
employee name
is the text of the option. In that case, you'd add this to
your list box's
opening <select> tag:
onChange =
"document.form1.yourTextField.value=this.options[this.selectedIndex].text"
"deej77" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:e4bspq$j3f$[email protected]..
> thanks lionstone! but if you could send me ASP samples
that i could study
> or
> tutorials site that have lessons that are exactly the
same with what i'm
> asking, that would be great. I searched the net and
found a lot of
> tutorials,
> but all of it doesn't come close to what i'm looking.
Please please.
> thanks
> again and have a great day.
>