Appending record & Making it "selected"

Question

I have a form which takes info on events. In addition to the fields are a couple of lists which are created by php using values stored in other tables of the db.

If the user wants to add an , I want to take the data from a 'quick form', insert a new record in the appropriate table, then make that record the selected="selected" record in the drop-down list.

What functions should I be using to get this going? I'm not asking for you to code the whole thing, just looking for a few hints on what should be included so I can learn by doing & put this together on my own.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here are some tips:

• First of all you will use .live() function to capture events for dynamically generated HTML.

• To change select options on some events, have a look at this: http://remysharp.com/2007/01/20/auto-populating-select-boxes-using-jquery-ajax/

• To select an item from select options look at this: jQuery - setting the selected value of a select control via its text description