pass data from dropdown to textbox?

I am not a coder or HTML buff. I am pretty good at following directions and beating my head against things until they work though. ;)

This is for a fantasy football auction draft that will be live using a chatroom. I want to have a

• text box for a player's name that the user can input
• drop down box for position
• drop down for team
• dropdown for whole dollar amounts
• drop down for .25 increments

User presses the submit button and all the data from those fields pass to a textbox on the same page and allows the user to post it to the chat room.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the data from the other fields into the textbox. I am quite sure that it isn't that hard and rather than beat myself I figured one of you smart guys here could point me in the right direction. Any help is appreciated.

Are you using JavaScript? Usually a dropdown box will have a property that contains the value of the selected text. In javascript it looks like this (my javascript is rusty):

Code:

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form1.dropdown1.options.selectedindex
...where selectedindex is what the user selected (careful to make sure it isn't blank).

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Then you apply it to the text box.

Code:

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form1.text1.value = form1.dropdown1.options.selectedindex

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Now, I'm almost positive that the code up there won't work, but if you go to http://www.pageresource.com, you'll find plenty of tutorials (where I learned to write javascript and html) that'll teach you to do exactly what you want to do.

Thanks! I'll give it a look.