I've got a dropdown list that I've made into a dynamic control. When someone selects a value, it will fill out all the other labels and text boxes via PHP. This is all working lovely on firefox, but ie is having problems.

Here's the Code I;m using

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
    function presubmit(dropdown)
        {
            var i  = dropdown.selectedIndex
            document.perform.action= ("index.php?type=user&edit=music&name=" + dropdown.options[i].value);
            document.perform.submit();
        }
</script>

Called by

<select name="performer" id="performer"  onchange="presubmit(this.form.performer)">

When in IE, I change the control and the page does indeed send data the string to index.php but minus the value of the dropdown list (index.php?type=user&edit=music&name=). I'm don't know much about javascript so any help would be appreciated.

Been looking some more into this and it's definitely something about IE.

I found this on a brief search and have followed exactly what it says as can be seen here and it won't work with IE. Firefox is fine with it as is opra, and avant, but IE goes through the motions but won't copy the value of the select list into the URL path.

Any insight or advice welcome as this is holding the go live of a project up. I could work around it, but it's a shame to let such a neat feature pass due to IE throwing a wobler

Applied some grey matter and managed to get this one worked out.

<option> has another event called value.

<option value="value1">value1</option>

did the job lovely. didn't mention that in any article I came accross. Hope this helps someone else.