How to get the value of dropdown box selected using collect_select()?

Rails
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Hi,

I am trying to get the value of ‘contenttype_id’ value from the
‘streams’ table like:

<%= collection_select
(:stream, :contenttype_id,@contenttypes,:id,:name),{},{onchange =>
“switchdiv(value)”;}%>

here i want to recieve the vaule of selected option in switchdiv( ) as
argument.
my collection_select dropdown box contain names as video,audio,image
and speech with having values as 1,2,3 and 4 respectively.

so if i hardcoded as value = 1 in switchdev() function like
switchdiv(1) am able do functionality what i implemented in switchdiv
function,

instead of hardcdoing i want to get the “value” of “name” from
dropdownbox.
ex:if i select name as ‘video’ i shoud get the value as ‘1’
can anyone give idea to get the value from collect_select?
thanks
Srikanth

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On 26 Dec 2008, at 17:37, srikanth wrote:

here i want to recieve the vaule of selected option in switchdiv( ) as
ex:if i select name as ‘video’ i shoud get the value as ‘1’
can anyone give idea to get the value from collect_select?
thanks

switchdiv($F(‘id_of_the_select_tag’)) will do the trick if you have
prototype library loaded

Fred