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Re: Prevent Drop-downs from showing

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Tim Streater wrote:

> In article <m3l85i$jji$1@dont-email.me>, Denis McMahon
> <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I thing the code behind the web pages should be detecting invalid
>> combinations and bouncing them back to the user to correct, rather
>> than submitting the invalid data to peoplesoft.
> 
> Invalid combinations should not even be possible. Your first dropdown
> should list countries. Having selected a country, you load the second
> dropdown with state/province/county as appropriate. This could all be
> hardwired into the app, or, better, make an ajax call to obtain th
> edata you need to load the second dropdown with, including whether it's
> to be loaded with states,counties, or provinces.

However, you can't have reliable validation on the client, so it's
always necessary to validate on the server.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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Prevent Drop-downs from showing DrKen <javajedi2@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-06 19:34 -0800
  Re: Prevent Drop-downs from showing "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-11-07 08:52 +0100
    Re: Prevent Drop-downs from showing Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-07 13:56 +0100
    Re: Prevent Drop-downs from showing Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-11-07 15:53 -0200
      Re: Prevent Drop-downs from showing "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-11-07 21:43 +0100
        Re: Prevent Drop-downs from showing Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-08 01:56 +0100
  Re: Prevent Drop-downs from showing Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-11-08 14:08 +0000
    Re: Prevent Drop-downs from showing Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-11-08 18:08 +0000
      Re: Prevent Drop-downs from showing "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-08 19:47 +0100
        Re: Prevent Drop-downs from showing Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-11-08 21:20 +0000

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