JavaScript and Drop down menu help?

Hi,
I'm having trouble trying to get options in my drop down menu to update in another section. I have the below script in a hidden field and everything seems to be working but it keeps picking up the last line only when doing calculations (i.e 48) when I change it in the drop down menu to say "HBZ-200" which has the value of 200 it is still only picking up the last line and value of 48.
So to put a little perspective on things the below script is in a hidden field called stndwatt, I then want to calculate that in another hidden field called calc which has the following calculations - (Qty3+ballconsump)-stndwatt, this should then update my visible field called ElectYear1 which then has the calculations of - (Qty1+Qty2)*(Qty4*Qty5*Qtycost*calcs*weeksinyear)/1000, as far as I can work out my stndwatt field is only picking up the last line below which is 48.
I'm sorry if this is vague I'm not very familar with JavaScript or PDF forms and have been scratching my head all day with this.
var v = this.getField("ProductLineOne").value;
if (v=="T101221W-30 (3000K T10 LED Tube)") event.value = "21";
else if (v=="T101221W-40 (4000K T10 LED Tube)") event.value = "21";
else if (v=="T101221W-50 (5000K T10 LED Tube)") event.value = "21";
else if (v=="T101221W-60 (6000K T10 LED Tube)") event.value = "21";
else if (v=="HBZ-100 (100W LED High Bay)") event.value = "100";
else if (v=="HBZ-150 (150W LED High Bay)") event.value = "150";
else if (v=="HBZ-200 (200W LED High Bay)") event.value = "200";
else if (v=="ZSL-48W (48W LED Shop Light)") event.value = "48";

Are you sure the code you posted here is EXACTLY the same as the code in
your file? Did you copy&paste it?
If so, can you share the file in question?

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I am new here and try my best to struggle though to find an answer. After several day of trying I give up and am turning to the forum for help.
I Have a Spry Horizontal Menu.
When viewing the meno in Live view (F12) my sub-menu buttons appear opaque (you can see the contents of the page behind it). Also when placing the curser on the menu it seem confused if it is on the botton or the page underneath it. The contentson the page is simple text. I read that there may be a problem with Flash but this is not the case.
I have tried and adjusted the Z-Indexes but it does not seem to help.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help.
PS. If the answer to this was answered before I am sorry. I did try and find it.

Here is the Spry Menu CSS Paul
@charset "UTF-8"; /* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */ /* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */ /******************************************************************************* LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order *******************************************************************************/ /* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal { padding: 0; list-style-type: none; font-size: 90%; cursor: default; width: 590px; position: absolute; top: 311px; font-weight: bold; left: 307px; height: 39px; margin: 0; z-index: 10; }
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html
*/ ul.MenuBarActive { z-index: 1000; } /* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal li { padding: 0; list-style-type: none; font-size: 100%; position: relative; text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 118px; float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; } /* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em)
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; font-size: 100%; z-index: 2000; cursor: default; width: 118px; position: absolute; left: -1000em; } /* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible { left: auto; } /* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li { width: 125px; } /* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%)
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul { position: absolute; margin: -5% 0 0 95%; } /* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible { left: auto; top: 0; }
/******************************************************************************* DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts *******************************************************************************/ /* Submenu containers have borders on all sides
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul { border: 1px solid #CCC; } /* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal a { display: block; cursor: pointer; background-color: #0E2C8E; color: #FFF; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: center; background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center center; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-left-color: #C4C9DB; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: #c4c9db; border-right-color: #565968; border-bottom-color: #565968; } /* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus { background-color: #57C1DB; color: #333; } /* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible { background-color: #57c1db; color: #FFF; } /******************************************************************************* SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item *******************************************************************************/ /* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%)
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu { background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDown.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 95% 50%; position: fixed; } /* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%)
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu { background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 95% 50%; } /* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%)
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover { background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 95% 50%; } /* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%)
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover { background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 95% 50%; } /******************************************************************************* BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert *******************************************************************************/ /* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe
*/ ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe { position: absolute; z-index: 1010; filter:alpha(opacity:0.1); } /* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */ @media screen, projection { ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE { display: inline; f\loat: left; background: #FFF; } }

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