DaniWeb IT Discussion Community - Counter for selectbox

Please feel free to modify this code to match your needs. If you have any question regarding this code you can document.write('Me on my inbox'). lol! Have a good day...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 

<html> 

<head> 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Some Title</titles>

<script type="text/javascript">

<!-- BEGIN HIDING



/* A simple counter script that will generate each the user select any option in the comboBox! */



var i = 0;

var x = 0;



function _selected() 

{

if ( form1.myselect.options[0].selected ) { i = i + 1;  

form1.myselect.options[0].text = 'Count ' + i; }

if ( form1.myselect.options[1].selected ) { x = x + 1; 

form1.myselect.options[1].text = 'Count ' + x; }

if ( i == 5 || x == 5 ) { alert('\nThat\'s enough for now'); 

 i = ( i == 5 ) ? 0 : i;

x = ( x == 5 ) ? 0 : x; 

  }  

}

// DONE HIDING -->

</script>

</head>

<body>



<form name="form1" action="#" onsubmit="return false;">

<select id="myselect" onchange="_selected();">

<option value="">selection1</option>

<option value="">selection2</option>

</select>

</form>

</body>

</html>