Dropdown menu - alert

[Leprakawn]

Okay, I know the simple js alert script... such as

function show_alert()
{
alert("Luke, I am your father.");
}

onclick="show_alert()"

But does anyone here happen to have any suggestions for an alert via a dropdown menu? I have a dd menu with 18 items, and I would like to see if I can put an alert on one of the items.

Thanks for your help!

[Deadeye]

function show_alert(int index)
{
    if(index == 7)
    {
        alert("Luke, I am your father.");
    }
}

onChange="show_alert(this.index)"

something along these lines. I'm not 100% sure of the code since I havent touched JS in a long time. But this is how I would approach this problem.

Wesley

[Leprakawn]

I meant to say this in my prev post, but I left it out thinking it was not important to say... I tried all of the other "on" functions: onchange; onhelp; etc.

I found another site that seemed to have the same question, and it looks like that answer uses the value as the item to reference the alert. My issue with that is that my dd menu is a list of links; thus, putting the URL in the function will not work because of the // characters. However... maybe if I can use the html number to fix it...

[Deadeye]

oh, sorry about that.

How is your page built? PHP or just plain HTML/js?

Wesley

[Leprakawn]

I am here at work, so this one is HTML/CSS/JS straight up. No can do PHP.

EDIT:
Shoot... and with my previous idea of using the HTML number to fix / (& #47; Ğ no space), that is working, but I am not getting an alert. I do not know if this would be causing an issue, the link is opening in a secondary window, which it needs to do for security issues.

You know, if this is too complicated, I guess I should not worry about it. Hopefully the ppl know which item to select when they hit the particular link. If not, then they will have to try it again.

[curtiss]

Any chance you can show us the code you're currently using? I'd be a lot more likely to be able to diagnose the issue if I could get my hands into the code.

[Leprakawn]

Curtiss:

Here is the dd menu:

<form name="el%20nombre"><div>
<select name="SelectURL" onchange="document.location.href=document.resources.SelectURL.options[document.resources.SelectURL.selectedIndex].value;" style="font-size:80%; width:100%; background:#000066; color:#fff; cursor:default;">
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="the URL I want to add the alert to">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option value="some random url">Link</option>
<option selected>Select Link</option>
</select></div></form>

The JS I have tried to use...

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function show_alert()
{
alert("Hi, I am the alert text.");
}
</script>

And I added this to the link of interest:
onchange="show_alert()"

As for the other trick I tried to use... I erased that code yesterday.