Help with copying a dropdown selection

Hi,

My code looks like this:

<li id="id_5" value="5">
<select id="cat_5" class="dropdown" name="cat_5">
<option value="1">one</option>
<option value="2">two</option>
<option value="3">three</option>
<option value="4">four</option>
<option value="5">five</option>
<option value="6">six</option>
<option selected="selected " value="7">seven</option></select>
<li id="id_6" value="6">
<select id="cat_6" class="dropdown" name="cat_6"/> </select>


Now I would like to copy all 7 options into the new select (id="cat_6).
Can someone please tell me how can I do that??

Thanks in advance.
suami.

 

Hi suami,
I suppose, from your example, it should copy the options to cat_6 after you select one from cat_5, right?
Then add onchange event here :
<select id="cat_5" class="dropdown" name="cat_5" onchange="copyThem(this, 'cat_6')">

And the function could be like this :

function copyThem(from, to_id) {
var ind = from.selectedIndex,
to = document.getElementById(to_id),
copy;
for(var i=0; i<=ind; i++) {
copy = from.options;
to.options = new Option(copy.text, copy.value);
}
}

It depends much on what you gonna do with it, because the example I gave you doesn't clean options in the cat_6 (when selecting option from cat_5 twice), it copies all options till and with the selected one...
But I hope you can get some idea, how to adapt it to your needs.