Display the selected value of a Drop down list in a text field (javascript)

Question

For Example: These are the items in a drop down list.

<select name="cmbitems" id="cmbitems">
    <option value="price1">blue</option>
    <option value="price2">green</option>
    <option value="price3">red</option>
</select>

When the user selects blue, i want to display the value of price1 in a text field below:

<input type="text" name="txtprice" id="txtprice" onClick="checkPrice()">

Thank you for answering

Answer 1

All you need to do is set the value of the input to the value of the select, in a select.onchange event handler.

var select = document.getElementById('cmbitems');
var input = document.getElementById('txtprice');
select.onchange = function() {
    input.value = select.value;
}

Here is a link to a jsFiddle demo

Answer 2

This is the brute force way to look up the currently selected option, check its value and use its display text to update your input. Like Daniele suggested, if you have jquery at your disposal, this gets much, much easier. But if you can't use a JS framework for any reason, this should get you what you need.

<select name="cmbitems" id="cmbitems" onchange="updateTextField()">
 ...
</select>
<input type="text" ..... />

<script type="text/javascript">
function updateTextField()
{
    var select = document.getElementById("cmbitems");
    var option = select.options[select.selectedIndex];
    if (option.id == "price1")
    {
        document.getElementById("txtprice").value = option.text;
    }
}
</script>