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1. stlouisweb@gmail.com
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   Posted 3 months ago #

   I have a form that puts post categories in a dropdown select menu, using the TDO Mini-forms plugin, users create a draft post via front-end form. I want to get the description for selected category on selection and display it below the selection menu. via an asynchronous event?

   here is the relevant form section:
   <!-- categories start -->
   <fieldset>
   <?php $defcat = 1; if(isset($post_args['categories'])) { $defcat = $post_args['categories']; } ?>
   Select a category:
   <select ' id='cat' name='categories' class='tdomf_categories' size='1' onchange="displaydesc()">
   <option id="1" value="1"<?php if( (is_array($defcat) && in_array(1, $defcat))
   || ( 1 == $defcat ) ) { echo ' selected="selected" '; } ?>
   >Uncategorized</option>
   <option id="2" value="4"<?php if( (is_array($defcat) && in_array(4, $defcat))
   || ( 4 == $defcat ) ) { echo ' selected="selected" '; } ?>
   >Web Design/Development</option>
   </select>
   </fieldset>
   <p>Description</p><span id="foo"></span>
   <script src="http://idealproject.us/postjobformcats.js"></script>

   and the JS (so far):
   function displaydesc() {
   document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML="Here goes the category description";
   }

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