// JavaScript Document// ===================================================================// Author: Matt Kruse <matt@mattkruse.com>// WWW: http://www.mattkruse.com///// NOTICE: You may use this code for any purpose, commercial or// private, without any further permission from the author. You may// remove this notice from your final code if you wish, however it is// appreciated by the author if at least my web site address is kept.//// You may *NOT* re-distribute this code in any way except through its// use. That means, you can include it in your product, or your web// site, or any other form where the code is actually being used. You// may not put the plain javascript up on your site for download or// include it in your javascript libraries for download. // If you wish to share this code with others, please just point them// to the URL instead.// Please DO NOT link directly to my .js files from your site. Copy// the files to your server and use them there. Thank you.// ===================================================================// HISTORY// ------------------------------------------------------------------// March 31, 2004: First release/* DESCRIPTION: This library allows you to easily create select boxes whosecontents depend on the value in a parent select box. It supports defaultoptions, preselected options, single or multiple-select lists, multipleform fields referencing the same list structure, form resetting, and mostimportantly, it's backwards-compatible way back to Netscape 4!COMPATABILITY: Netscape 4+, IE, Opera >5 (O5 didn't support new Option()),and should work on all other newer browsers.USAGE:        // Create a new object, passing in the fields that make up the dynamic set         // of lists.var dol = new DynamicOptionList("Field1","Child1","Child2");                // Or, you can create it empty, and pass in sets of select objects latervar dol = new DynamicOptionList();dol.addDependentFields("Field1","Child1","Child2");        // Once you have the list object defined, you can additional sets of dependent        // fields, too. These sets will act as separate groups of related fields, but        // will all use the same options and data.dol.addDependentOptions("Field1","Child2-1","Child2-2");        // By default, the script will automatically find the form where your select        // objects exist. But you can explicitly set it if you wish, either by form         // name or index.dol.setFormName("MyForm");dol.setFormIndex(1);        // Now define the options that will exist in sub-lists. This is done in a         // very logical way - you say for an option in the parent, populate the child        // with specific options. When selecting which parent option you're dealing        // with, you can either select by its value or its display text. This command        // says, for an option in the parent list that has value="Value1", if it is        // selected then populate the child list with the given sub-options.dol.forValue("Value1").addOptions("Suboption1","Suboption2","Suboption3");        // And you can also say, for an option in the parent list that has display        // text of "Text1", if it is selected then populate the child list with the        // given sub-options.dol.forText("Text1").addOptions("Suboption1","Suboption2","Suboption3");        // For multi-level lists, you just continue the chain...        // This says, if an option with value "Value1" is selected in the first list,        // then an option with values "Value2" is selected in the second list, populate        // the third list with these options.dol.forValue("Value1").forValue("Value2").addOptions("1","2","3");        // If the options you want to add should have different values and dislplay        // text, you can do thatdol.forValue("Value1").addOptionsTextValue("Text2","Value2");        // When an option is selected from the first list, and the options in the         // second list are populated, you may want to have one of the options in the        // child list be selected by default.dol.forValue("Value1").setDefaultOptions("MyValue");        // When the page first loads, you may set the values of the dependent select        // lists to be selected by default. For example, when a user is editing an        // existing record where they've already selected from the parent/child        // relationships. This is different from the default option in that this        // value is only selected when the page LOADS. If the user changes selections,        // this will be lost.dol.forValue("Value1").setValues("MyPreselectedValue");        // By default, if there are is no option which should be selected in the child        // list, the code will automatically select the first option in the list. If         // you want it to instead set selectedIndex = -1 (nothing selected - works in        // most browsers but not all) than you can tell it to do that insteaddol.selectFirstOption = false;// MODIFYING THE HTML// If you are supporting Netscape 4.x browsers, you will need to insert a call to// the library to populate options. This is because Netscape4 will not expand the// size of the select box as new options are added, so you have to "pad" the list// with blank options in order for it to work right. // This is the ONLY change you should need to make to your HTML. To do this, just// add a javascript block between your <select> </select> tags like this:<select name="list1"><script>dol.printOptions("list1")</script></select>// You only need to pass it the name of the select options that it should print// options for.NOTES: - There seems to be an issue with Netscape6, if you hit Reload on the page. It   doesn't happen every time, and I can't figure out why it happens at all. - If your select objects have onChange handlers in them, you'll need to manually   add a call to the DynamicOptionList code to trigger the population of the child   list. For example,      <select onChange="yourfunction(); dol.change(this)"> */ // Global objects to keep track of DynamicOptionList objects created on the pagevar dynamicOptionListCount=0;var dynamicOptionListObjects = new Array();// Init call to setup lists after page load. One call to this function sets up all lists.function initDynamicOptionLists() {        // init each DynamicOptionList object        for (var i=0; i<dynamicOptionListObjects.length; i++) {                var dol = dynamicOptionListObjects[i];                // Find the form associated with this list                if (dol.formName!=null) {                         dol.form = document.forms[dol.formName];                }                else if (dol.formIndex!=null) {                        dol.form = document.forms[dol.formIndex];                }                else {                        // Form wasn't set manually, so go find it!                        // Search for the first form element name in the lists                        var name = dol.fieldNames[0][0];                        for (var f=0; f<document.forms.length; f++) {                                if (typeof(document.forms[f][name])!="undefined") {                                        dol.form = document.forms[f];                                        break;                                }                        }                        if (dol.form==null) {                                alert("ERROR: Couldn't find form element "+name+" in any form on the page! Init aborted"); return;                        }                }                // Form is found, now set the onchange attributes of each dependent select box                for (var j=0; j<dol.fieldNames.length; j++) {                        // For each set of field names...                        for (var k=0; k<dol.fieldNames[j].length-1; k++) {                                // For each field in the set...                                var selObj = dol.form[dol.fieldNames[j][k]];                                if (typeof(selObj)=="undefined") { alert("Select box named "+dol.fieldNames[j][k]+" could not be found in the form. Init aborted"); return; }                                // Map the HTML options in the first select into the options we created                                if (k==0) {                                        if (selObj.options!=null) {                                                for (l=0; l<selObj.options.length; l++) {                                                        var sopt = selObj.options[l];                                                        var m = dol.findMatchingOptionInArray(dol.options,sopt.text,sopt.value,false);                                                        if (m!=null) {                                                                var reselectForNN6 = sopt.selected;                                                                var m2 = new Option(sopt.text, sopt.value, sopt.defaultSelected, sopt.selected);                                                                m2.selected = sopt.selected; // For some reason I need to do this to make NN4 happy                                                                m2.defaultSelected = sopt.defaultSelected;                                                                m2.DOLOption = m;                                                                selObj.options[l] = m2;                                                                selObj.options[l].selected = reselectForNN6; // Reselect this option for NN6 to be happy. Yuck.                                                        }                                                }                                        }                                }                                if (selObj.onchange==null) {                                        // We only modify the onChange attribute if it's empty! Otherwise do it yourself in your source!                                        selObj.onchange = new Function("dynamicOptionListObjects["+dol.index+"].change(this)");                                }                        }                }        }        // Set the preselectd options on page load         resetDynamicOptionLists();}// This function populates lists with the preselected values. // It's pulled out into a separate function so it can be hooked into a 'reset' button on a form// Optionally passed a form object which should be the only form resetfunction resetDynamicOptionLists(theform) {        // reset each DynamicOptionList object        for (var i=0; i<dynamicOptionListObjects.length; i++) {                var dol = dynamicOptionListObjects[i];                if (typeof(theform)=="undefined" || theform==null || theform==dol.form) {                        for (var j=0; j<dol.fieldNames.length; j++) {                                dol.change(dol.form[dol.fieldNames[j][0]],true); // Second argument says to use preselected values rather than default values                        }                }        }}// An object to represent an Option() but just for data-holdingfunction DOLOption(text,value,defaultSelected,selected) {        this.text = text;        this.value = value;        this.defaultSelected = defaultSelected;        this.selected = selected;        this.options = new Array(); // To hold sub-options        return this;}// DynamicOptionList CONSTRUCTORfunction DynamicOptionList() {        this.form = null;// The form this list belongs to        this.options = new Array();// Holds the options of dependent lists        this.longestString = new Array();// Longest string that is currently a potential option (for Netscape)        this.numberOfOptions = new Array();// The total number of options that might be displayed, to build dummy options (for Netscape)        this.currentNode = null;// The current node that has been selected with forValue() or forText()        this.currentField = null;// The current field that is selected to be used for setValue()        this.currentNodeDepth = 0;// How far down the tree the currentNode is        this.fieldNames = new Array();// Lists of dependent fields which use this object        this.formIndex = null;// The index of the form to associate with this list        this.formName = null;// The name of the form to associate with this list        this.fieldListIndexes = new Object();// Hold the field lists index where fields exist        this.fieldIndexes = new Object();// Hold the index within the list where fields exist        this.selectFirstOption = true;// Whether or not to select the first option by default if no options are default or preselected, otherwise set the selectedIndex = -1        this.numberOfOptions = new Array();// Store the max number of options for a given option list        this.longestString = new Array();// Store the longest possible string         this.values = new Object(); // Will hold the preselected values for fields, by field name                // Method mappings        this.forValue = DOL_forValue;        this.forText = DOL_forText;        this.forField = DOL_forField;        this.forX = DOL_forX;        this.addOptions = DOL_addOptions;        this.addOptionsTextValue = DOL_addOptionsTextValue;        this.setDefaultOptions = DOL_setDefaultOptions;        this.setValues = DOL_setValues;        this.setValue = DOL_setValues;        this.setFormIndex = DOL_setFormIndex;        this.setFormName = DOL_setFormName;        this.printOptions = DOL_printOptions;        this.addDependentFields = DOL_addDependentFields;        this.change = DOL_change;        this.child = DOL_child;        this.selectChildOptions = DOL_selectChildOptions;        this.populateChild = DOL_populateChild;        this.change = DOL_change;        this.addNewOptionToList = DOL_addNewOptionToList;        this.findMatchingOptionInArray = DOL_findMatchingOptionInArray;        // Optionally pass in the dependent field names        if (arguments.length > 0) {                // Process arguments and add dependency groups                for (var i=0; i<arguments.length; i++) {                        this.fieldListIndexes[arguments[i].toString()] = this.fieldNames.length;                        this.fieldIndexes[arguments[i].toString()] = i;                }                this.fieldNames[this.fieldNames.length] = arguments;        }                // Add this object to the global array of dynamicoptionlist objects        this.index = window.dynamicOptionListCount++;        window["dynamicOptionListObjects"][this.index] = this;}// Given an array of Option objects, search for an existing option that matches value, text, or bothfunction DOL_findMatchingOptionInArray(a,text,value,exactMatchRequired) {        if (a==null || typeof(a)=="undefined") { return null; }        var value_match = null; // Whether or not a value has been matched        var text_match = null; // Whether or not a text has been matched        for (var i=0; i<a.length; i++) {                var opt = a[i];                // If both value and text match, return it right away                if (opt.value==value && opt.text==text) { return opt; }                if (!exactMatchRequired) {                        // If value matches, store it until we complete scanning the list                        if (value_match==null && value!=null && opt.value==value) {                                value_match = opt;                        }                        // If text matches, store it for later                        if (text_match==null && text!=null && opt.text==text) {                                text_match = opt;                        }                }        }        return (value_match!=null)?value_match:text_match;}// Util function used by forValue and forTextfunction DOL_forX(s,type) {        if (this.currentNode==null) { this.currentNodeDepth=0; }        var useNode = (this.currentNode==null)?this:this.currentNode;        var o = this.findMatchingOptionInArray(useNode["options"],(type=="text")?s:null,(type=="value")?s:null,false);        if (o==null) {                o = new DOLOption(null,null,false,false);                o[type] = s;                useNode.options[useNode.options.length] = o;        }        this.currentNode = o;        this.currentNodeDepth++;        return this;}// Set the portion of the list structure that is to be used by a later operation like addOptionsfunction DOL_forValue(s) { return this.forX(s,"value"); }// Set the portion of the list structure that is to be used by a later operation like addOptionsfunction DOL_forText(s) { return this.forX(s,"text"); }// Set the field to be used for setValue() callsfunction DOL_forField(f) { this.currentField = f; return this; }// Create and add an option to a list, avoiding duplicatesfunction DOL_addNewOptionToList(a, text, value, defaultSelected) {        var o = new DOLOption(text,value,defaultSelected,false);        // Add the option to the array        if (a==null) { a = new Array(); }        for (var i=0; i<a.length; i++) {                if (a[i].text==o.text && a[i].value==o.value) {                        if (o.selected) {                                 a[i].selected=true;                        }                        if (o.defaultSelected) {                                a[i].defaultSelected = true;                        }                        return a;                }        }        a[a.length] = o;}// Add sub-options to the currently-selected node, with the same text and value for each optionfunction DOL_addOptions() {        if (this.currentNode==null) { this.currentNode = this; }        if (this.currentNode["options"] == null) { this.currentNode["options"] = new Array(); }        for (var i=0; i<arguments.length; i++) {                var text = arguments[i];                this.addNewOptionToList(this.currentNode.options,text,text,false);                if (typeof(this.numberOfOptions[this.currentNodeDepth])=="undefined") {                        this.numberOfOptions[this.currentNodeDepth]=0;                }                if (this.currentNode.options.length > this.numberOfOptions[this.currentNodeDepth]) {                        this.numberOfOptions[this.currentNodeDepth] = this.currentNode.options.length;                }                if (typeof(this.longestString[this.currentNodeDepth])=="undefined" || (text.length > this.longestString[this.currentNodeDepth].length)) {                        this.longestString[this.currentNodeDepth] = text;                }        }        this.currentNode = null;        this.currentNodeDepth = 0;}// Add sub-options to the currently-selected node, specifying separate text and values for each optionfunction DOL_addOptionsTextValue() {        if (this.currentNode==null) { this.currentNode = this; }        if (this.currentNode["options"] == null) { this.currentNode["options"] = new Array(); }        for (var i=0; i<arguments.length; i++) {                var text = arguments[i++];                var value = arguments[i];                this.addNewOptionToList(this.currentNode.options,text,value,false);                if (typeof(this.numberOfOptions[this.currentNodeDepth])=="undefined") {                        this.numberOfOptions[this.currentNodeDepth]=0;                }                if (this.currentNode.options.length > this.numberOfOptions[this.currentNodeDepth]) {                        this.numberOfOptions[this.currentNodeDepth] = this.currentNode.options.length;                }                if (typeof(this.longestString[this.currentNodeDepth])=="undefined" || (text.length > this.longestString[this.currentNodeDepth].length)) {                        this.longestString[this.currentNodeDepth] = text;                }        }        this.currentNode = null;        this.currentNodeDepth = 0;}// Find the first dependent list of a select box// If it's the last list in a chain, return null because there are no childrenfunction DOL_child(obj) {        var listIndex = this.fieldListIndexes[obj.name];        var index = this.fieldIndexes[obj.name];        if (index < (this.fieldNames[listIndex].length-1)) {                return this.form[this.fieldNames[listIndex][index+1]];        }        return null;}// Set the options which should be selected by default for a certain value in the parentfunction DOL_setDefaultOptions() {        if (this.currentNode==null) { this.currentNode = this; }        for (var i=0; i<arguments.length; i++) {                var o = this.findMatchingOptionInArray(this.currentNode.options,null,arguments[i],false);                if (o!=null) {                        o.defaultSelected = true;                }        }        this.currentNode = null;}// Set the options which should be selected when the page loads. This is different than the default value and ONLY applies when the page LOADSfunction DOL_setValues() {        if (this.currentField==null) {                 alert("Can't call setValues() without using forField() first!");                return;        }        if (typeof(this.values[this.currentField])=="undefined") {                this.values[this.currentField] = new Object();        }        for (var i=0; i<arguments.length; i++) {                this.values[this.currentField][arguments[i]] = true;        }        this.currentField = null;}// Manually set the form for the object using an indexfunction DOL_setFormIndex(i) {        this.formIndex = i;}// Manually set the form for the object using a form namefunction DOL_setFormName(n) {        this.formName = n;}// Print blank <option> objects for Netscape4, since it refuses to grow or shrink select boxes for new optionsfunction DOL_printOptions(name) {        // Only need to write out "dummy" options for Netscape4    if ((navigator.appName == 'Netscape') && (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) <= 4)){                var index = this.fieldIndexes[name];                var ret = "";                if (typeof(this.numberOfOptions[index])!="undefined") {                        for (var i=0; i<this.numberOfOptions[index]; i++) {                                 ret += "<OPTION>";                        }                }                ret += "<OPTION>";                if (typeof(this.longestString[index])!="undefined") {                        for (var i=0; i<this.longestString[index].length; i++) {                                ret += "_";                        }                }                document.writeln(ret);        }}// Add a list of field names which use this option-mapping object.// A single mapping object may be used by multiple sets of fieldsfunction DOL_addDependentFields() {        for (var i=0; i<arguments.length; i++) {                this.fieldListIndexes[arguments[i].toString()] = this.fieldNames.length;                this.fieldIndexes[arguments[i].toString()] = i;        }        this.fieldNames[this.fieldNames.length] = arguments;}// Called when a parent select box is changed. It populates its direct child, then calls change on the child object to continue the population.function DOL_change(obj, usePreselected) {        if (usePreselected==null || typeof(usePreselected)=="undefined") { usePreselected = false; }        var changedListIndex = this.fieldListIndexes[obj.name];        var changedIndex = this.fieldIndexes[obj.name];        var child = this.child(obj);        if (child == null) { return; } // No child, no need to continue        if (obj.type == "select-one") {                // Treat single-select differently so we don't have to scan the entire select list, which could potentially speed things up                if (child.options!=null) {                        child.options.length=0; // Erase all the options from the child so we can re-populate                }                if (obj.options!=null && obj.options.length>0 && obj.selectedIndex>=0) {                        var o = obj.options[obj.selectedIndex];                        this.populateChild(o.DOLOption,child,usePreselected);                        this.selectChildOptions(child,usePreselected);                }        }        else if (obj.type == "select-multiple") {                // For each selected value in the parent, find the options to fill in for this list                // Loop through the child list and keep track of options that are currently selected                var currentlySelectedOptions = new Array();                if (!usePreselected) {                        for (var i=0; i<child.options.length; i++) {                                var co = child.options[i];                                if (co.selected) {                                        this.addNewOptionToList(currentlySelectedOptions, co.text, co.value, co.defaultSelected);                                }                        }                }                child.options.length=0;                if (obj.options!=null) {                        var obj_o = obj.options;                        // For each selected option in the parent...                        for (var i=0; i<obj_o.length; i++) {                                if (obj_o[i].selected) {                                        // if option is selected, add its children to the list                                        this.populateChild(obj_o[i].DOLOption,child,usePreselected);                                }                        }                        // Now go through and re-select any options which were selected before                        var atLeastOneSelected = false;                        if (!usePreselected) {                                for (var i=0; i<child.options.length; i++) {                                        var m = this.findMatchingOptionInArray(currentlySelectedOptions,child.options[i].text,child.options[i].value,true);                                        if (m!=null) {                                                child.options[i].selected = true;                                                atLeastOneSelected = true;                                        }                                }                        }                        if (!atLeastOneSelected) {                                      this.selectChildOptions(child,usePreselected);                        }                }        }        // Change all the way down the chain        this.change(child,usePreselected);}function DOL_populateChild(dolOption,childSelectObj,usePreselected) {        // If this opton has sub-options, populate the child list with them        if (dolOption!=null && dolOption.options!=null) {                for (var j=0; j<dolOption.options.length; j++) {                        var srcOpt = dolOption.options[j];                        if (childSelectObj.options==null) { childSelectObj.options = new Array(); }                        // Put option into select list                        var duplicate = false;                        var preSelectedExists = false;                        for (var k=0; k<childSelectObj.options.length; k++) {                                var csi = childSelectObj.options[k];                                if (csi.text==srcOpt.text && csi.value==srcOpt.value) {                                        duplicate = true;                                        break;                                }                        }                        if (!duplicate) {                                var newopt = new Option(srcOpt.text, srcOpt.value, false, false);                                newopt.selected = false; // Again, we have to do these two statements for NN4 to work                                newopt.defaultSelected = false;                                newopt.DOLOption = srcOpt;                                childSelectObj.options[childSelectObj.options.length] = newopt;                        }                }        }}// Once a child select is populated, go back over it to select options which should be selectedfunction DOL_selectChildOptions(obj,usePreselected) {        // Look to see if any options are preselected=true. If so, then set then selected if usePreselected=true, otherwise set defaults        var values = this.values[obj.name];        var preselectedExists = false;        if (usePreselected && values!=null && typeof(values)!="undefined") {                for (var i=0; i<obj.options.length; i++) {                        var v = obj.options[i].value;                        if (v!=null && values[v]!=null && typeof(values[v])!="undefined") {                                preselectedExists = true;                                break;                        }                }        }        // Go back over all the options to do the selection        var atLeastOneSelected = false;        for (var i=0; i<obj.options.length; i++) {                var o = obj.options[i];                if (preselectedExists && o.value!=null && values[o.value]!=null && typeof(values[o.value])!="undefined") {                        o.selected = true;                        atLeastOneSelected = true;                }                else if (!preselectedExists && o.DOLOption!=null && o.DOLOption.defaultSelected) {                        o.selected = true;                        atLeastOneSelected = true;                }                else {                        o.selected = false;                }        }        // If nothing else was selected, select the first one by default        if (this.selectFirstOption && !atLeastOneSelected && obj.options.length>0) {                obj.options[0].selected = true;        }        else if (!atLeastOneSelected &&  obj.type=="select-one") {                obj.selectedIndex = -1;        }}