Is it possible for each dropdown options to link somewhere when selected without the need for an external button?
Add an onchange event handler and set the pages location to the value
<select id="foo">
<option value="">Pick a site</option>
<option value="http://www.google.com">x</option>
<option value="http://www.yahoo.com">y</option>
</select>
<script>
document.getElementById("foo").onchange = function() {
if (this.selectedIndex!==0) {
window.location.href = this.value;
}
};
</script>
You can use the onChange property. Something like:
<select onChange="window.location.href=this.value">
<option value="www.google.com">A</option>
<option value="www.aol.com">B</option>
</select>
You can use this code:
<select id="menu" name="links" size="1" onchange="window.location.href=this.value;">
<option value="URL">Book</option>
<option value="URL">Pen</option>
<option value="URL">Read</option>
<option value="URL">Apple</option>
</select>
Maybe this will help:
<select onchange="location = this.value;">
<option value="home.html">Home</option>
<option value="contact.html">Contact</option>
<option value="about.html">About</option>
</select>
This is an old question, I know but for 2019 peeps:
Like above if you just want to change the URL you can do this:
<select onChange="window.location.href=this.value">
<option value="www.google.com">A</option>
<option value="www.aol.com">B</option>
</select>
But if you want it to act like an a tag and so you can do "./page"
, "#bottom"
or "?a=567"
use window.location.replace()
<select onChange="window.location.redirect(this.value)">
<option value="..">back</option>
<option value="./list">list</option>
<option value="#bottom">bottom</option>
</select>
PS. Sorry if the formatting is weird I'm new at Stack Overflows syntax
... or if you want / need to keep your option 'value' as it was, just add a new attribute:
<select id="my_selection">
<option value="x" href="/link/to/somewhere">value 1</option>
<option value="y" href="/link/to/somewhere/else">value 2</option>
</select>
<script>
document.getElementById('my_selection').onchange = function() {
window.location.href = this.children[this.selectedIndex].getAttribute('href');
}
</script>