# URL pop-up from selection (select box)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/url-pop-up-from-selection-select-box/82316>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 19, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/url-pop-up-from-selection-select-box/82316 "2007-01-19T10:33:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jabo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jabo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jabo)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/url-pop-up-from-selection-select-box/82316/1 "2007-01-19T10:33:56Z")

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I would like to have a “popup” window to open when selecting a value in  
a selection box, all this without “JavaScript”…

So far I have the following code in a view file, no action  
‘pop\_up\_window’ defined so far…

\<%= start\_form\_tag :controller =\> ‘list’, :action =\> ‘pop\_up\_window’ %\>

\<%  
@my\_array=[“Select Destination…”]  
@my\_array\<\<[‘Destination 1’,‘[http://www.domainname1.com](http://www.domainname1.com)’]  
@my\_array\<\<[‘Destination 2’,‘[http://www.domainname2.com](http://www.domainname2.com)’]  
@my\_array\<\<[‘Destination 3’,‘[http://www.domainname3.com](http://www.domainname3.com)’]  
%\>

\<% select ‘destination’, ‘destination\_url’, @my\_array, {}, {:style =\>  
“width:100px”} %\>

\<%= submit\_tag “Go !” %\>

\<%= end\_form\_tag %\>

What would be the code for the action ‘pop\_up\_window’ ??  
Are there other ways to achieve the result (without using JavaScript) ?

Thank you very much !!

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**Author:** ![jabo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jabo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jabo)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 10:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/url-pop-up-from-selection-select-box/82316/2 "2007-01-20T10:55:11Z")

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I debated responding since I don’t really know the answer, but I can  
pretty  
much guarantee you it will require javascript.

Hope that helps,  
Tyler P.

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**Author:** ![jabo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jabo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jabo)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/url-pop-up-from-selection-select-box/82316/3 "2007-01-20T00:10:36Z")

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anyone ?