Dynamic population of HTML dropdown..

[former_member1111248]

hi,

I am supposed to use a html dropdown,where the values are being populated dynamically.so in the update event of a browser applet i am getting the rowcount and populating the html dropdown by looping through each items of the browser. while doing this, the page is getting refreshed repeatedly giving a flickering effect.is there any ways to avoid this......

thanks

karthick...

[jcgood25 · Accepted solution]

If you need the html select box to be data driven and only really need it populated by the query results as part of the page rendering then you could consider a SERVLET call with a stylesheet. Take a look at http://localhost/Illuminator/StyleSheets/IllumList.xsl, as this is used when you run test queries for modes such as TagList, TableList, xxxList.

Regards,

Jeremy

[Former Member]

I've honestly had much better results manually populating a browser applet, you can use a generic query template to create a "blank" browser. Then use the document.iBrowser.getBrowserObject().addItem(VALUE) or document.iBrowser.getBrowserObject().addItemWithDatalink(VALUE,DATAVALUE) or document.iBrowser.getBrowserObject().insertItem(VALUE,POSITION) etc.

The reason I like doing this is that the browser applet will have the same look and feel as other browsers on the page. I've never noticed a performance difference between doing this and populating a HTML option form. I guess its more of an aesthetic thing for me.