Hi, I'm a beginner at java, still learning, so have some patience with me I have this .java page which should get and set a HtmlPage, and this HtmlPage has a drop down list with values(I use firebug in Mozilla firefox to inspect this element), and this code is what appears in the firebug inspection window:

<select id="instance2" name="instance2">      
<option value="0">All instances</option>      
<option value="1">Item0</option>      
<option value="2">Item1</option>      
<option value="3">Item2</option>      
                   .      
                   .      
                   .      
<option value="23">Item22</option>

What I want to do is actually to get the value that a user has selected from the drop down list, and save it to the database, and someone told me I could use getElementById(), and I have this code that I found on the internet:

<select name="mySelect" id="mySelect" onchange="getSelectedValue();">   
    <option value="1">Text 1</option>   
    <option value="2">Text 2</option>   
</select>   
  
<script type="text/javascript">   
function getSelectedValue() {   
    var index = document.getElementById('mySelect').selectedIndex;   
    alert("value="+document.getElementById('mySelect').value);   
    alert("text="+document.getElementById('mySelect').options[index].text);   
}   
</script>

I really need help here because it's urgent, and I've been to many other forums, but there are people telling me that it's I should go either java or javascript forums. Please tell me if I'm at the right forum and if not, which one I should go to.

Thanks, any help is greatly appreciated

When you say "database", you mean something on the server, right?

If so, then handling a basic HTML FORM element should do it. No need to poke the DOM (via getElementById or such), because that it client-side stuff.

Unless you want to use some AJAX ninja magic to post the data to the server, but a FORM is totally sufficient for that.

And by Java do you really mean javascript.

Because Java and javascript are different things entirely.

PHP Code:

<select id="instance2" name="instance2">      
<option value="0" default>All instances</option>      
<option value="1">Item0</option>      
<option value="2">Item1</option>      
<option value="3">Item2</option>
</select>

<script>
  function getSelectedValue()
  {
    selectBox = document.getElementById("instance2");
    alert(selectBox.value);
  }
</script> 


Hope thats what u r looking for