Coding & scripting forum: JavaScript Form Action?

Usually, you'll want to something along the following lines:

<form action="pageRedirect.php" method="get">

The reason is that some may not have JavaScript enabled, so nothing will happen when they select something from the drop-down menu. Thus, you'd need to add a Submit button, and have the page pointed to as the action property handle the redirect server-side. Thus, you'd use PHP, ASP, JSP, etc. to get the option number, from the GET/POST param, then redirect the the appropriate page.

Non-validated code such as that will still work for most, but some would visit your site and find it "broken" is JS is disabled/unsupported, particularly an issue for those using some mobile browsers and the disabled using screen readers.

John

CSS controls styling of content, such as changing font size, positioning a block of text to the right, adding a background image, etc. It is not a server-side programming language, which is what you'd need in a case such as this. PHP, JSP, ASP, and others will all work, but CSS, HTML, and JavaScript are insufficient.

An alternative: Create a scrolling div that contains a list of all the navigation links instead of using a drop-down menu powered by JavaScript. That will work for everyone without adding a server-side language.

John