This is an easy way to use jquery and xml to populate a combo box (drop down) which could be used for populating dynamic options to the combo box based upon an xml configuration data file (which contains the options). This method could be useful for forms that have constantly changing options.
Here is how you do it.
HTML Code
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jQuery Code
$(document).ready(function(){
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "dropdown.xml",
dataType: "xml",
success: function(xml) {
var select = $('#mySelect');
$(xml).find('menuitem').each(function(){
var title = $(this).find('title').text();
select.append(""+title+"");
$(this).find('value').each(function(){
var value = $(this).text();
select.append(""+value+"");
});
});
select.children(":first").text("please make a selection").attr("selected",true);
}
});
});
XML Code
< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
first set
option a
option b
second set
option 1
option 2
third set
option 1a
option 2b
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