Change the value of a select box with Java Script? - Webmaster Centre News and Discussion Forum

Jamaal E · 05-01-2008, 01:30 PM

This is the code thus far:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>

<script type ="text/javascript">
function HouseSel(){
document.getElementById("HouseSelect").value = '3'
alert (document.getElementById("HouseSelect").value);
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" name="_xclick">

<select name="item_name" id="HouseSelect">
<option value="0" selected="selected">--Please Select a House--</option>
<option value="1">Nags Head</option>
<option value="Rent Deposite: Calibre: ">Calibre</option>
</select>

<input name="calculate3" type="button" id="calculate3" tabindex="2"
onclick="HouseSel(); " value="Calculate"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
The problem is, it's still returning the inital value of 1 rather than 3. What do I do?!?