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• It could be a lot simpler still. (Score:2)

  by bart (450)

  Really.
  
  Get his example HTML page from http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/articles/unobtrusivedynamicselect/unobtrusivedyn amicselect_ex5.html [bobbyvandersluis.com], rip out his Javascript, and instead, put this CSS and in the header of the file.

  <style type="text/css">
  #pda-type option { display: none }
  #pda-type option.select,
  .hp#pda-type option.hp,
  .dell#pda-type option.dell,
  .palmone#pda-type option.palmone
    { display: block }
  </style>

  And put this bit of Javascript in the onChange attribute for the first dropdown:
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by bart (450)

    Oopsie, I just tried it in MSIE 6, and it doesn't work there, dammit. It does work in Firefox 1.5.