Hi,

This might sound weird... but it actually will be quite useful for me to know how to do this little thing that I'm about to ask.

I'm creating a form in Dreamweaver MX, the form asks the user two questions (both in the form of drop-down lists) the second question has different responses depending on the first response. All possible responses to these questions are derived from information in a database. What I'm having an issue with is getting the second set of available responses to load from the database after the user selects their response from the first set.

Thanks in advance for any feedback... and sorry too in advance if I'm not very clear in what I'm asking... I'm heading out the door as I type and am looking for an answer soon. If needed I can go into further detail at a later time.

Once again thanks,
Tom

You will need to populate the second dropdown with an AJAX call to the server to a page that gets the options from the database.

Forgive my ignorance as I'm not familiar with AJAX... but is that the only way? There's no simple way to just have the values submitted automatically when the user makes their selection from the first menu?

Unfortunately thats what AJAX does. It makes a call to the server 'behind the scenes'. without a full page refresh.

You might want to try a JavaScript library like JQuery to make it easier. There are probably examples/plugins you can download and incorporate pretty quickly. Try a google search.