I am trying to produce an effect for my page where there is a combo box and the user selects an option. After selecting the option, the form/page dynamically updates without refreshing the window/page. At first I assumed this is done with frames, but after further examiniation I'm starting to think it's something different. Listed below are a few examples to give you an idea of what I want to reproduce/emulate:
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https://signup.live.com/hmnewuser.aspx?mkt=EN-CA&ru=http%3A//login.live.com/login.srf%3Fid%3D2%26ru%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.hotmail.msn.com%252fcgi-bin%252fsbox%253fnewuser%253dyes&rollrs=03&lic=1This is a link to MSN Hotmail's Sign Up page where it asks for personal information. If you scroll down, you will notice a subheading called "Your information" in bold. Below this heading you will notice "*Country/Region" listing all possible countries that a user may choose. If, for example, the country Canada is chosen there will be extra options below that combo box listing sub-regions (province/state), but if you are to choose another Country such as Benin the options disappear or if you choose the country Columbia it changes to give you a combo box for "State/Territory".
I want to do this but instead of giving another set of combo boxes, I want it to display text and possibly images in the form.
Also, if you scroll up a bit you will notice that under the sub-heading "Choose your password" that if you decide to type in text in the password fields, some text information will appear on the right side. This is another example of how I would like it to happen but through the option of a combo box.
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http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/combodescrip1.shtmlThis link provides a sample of a combo box JavaScript script that when a user chooses an option in the combo box, it changes the text within the description box. See, this would be perfect for my uses if it was not just for plain text. I would like to use different styles and fonts and possibly images, as I have said earlier, in a box like this.
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http://xkr.us/js/?sel=dynselThis link is a list of JavaScript elements and when you highlight your mouse over the text of a topic, the title above changes dynamically without a refresh. I would like to do the same thing but have it based on click instead of on mouse over and have it based on a combo box, but possibly just clicking on a link instead. Either will suffice in this case.
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