# Cascading select menus in Rails?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cascading-select-menus-in-rails/91750>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 12, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cascading-select-menus-in-rails/91750 "2007-04-12T01:34:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![iceburgh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/c4cdca/32.png) [@iceburgh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/iceburgh)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cascading-select-menus-in-rails/91750/1 "2007-04-12T01:34:00Z")

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I’m looking for a canned solution to creating cascading  
select menus in Rails. Kind of like optgroup, except that  
the lower-level items live in their own menus, as seen in:

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Can anyone point me to some nicely packaged technology,  
so I don’t have to fight with the JavaScript myself?

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