Select boxes

Rails
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I am trying to understand the best way to apply javascript to two
select boxes. If the user changes the selection in box A, a given
option in box B would dynamically become selected.

Does rails provide help with tasks like this, or would I need to
manually create a javascript function to handle this kind of thing in
the view?

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On 27 Feb 2008, at 12:09, Brian wrote:

I am trying to understand the best way to apply javascript to two
select boxes. If the user changes the selection in box A, a given
option in box B would dynamically become selected.

Does rails provide help with tasks like this, or would I need to
manually create a javascript function to handle this kind of thing in
the view?

Whatever you do boils down to writing an onchange handler for A. You
can do this in a railsish way: you can use the update page to let you
write that bit of javascript using rjs, but I would contend that there
isn’t a huge amount of point doing it that way. With a smattering of
prototype, javascript really isn’t that bad.

Fred