Drop-down box dependent on the option selected in another drop-down box

Question

I have 2 different SELECT OPTION in a form.

The first one is Source, the second one is Status. I would like to have different OPTIONS in my Status drop-down list dep

Answer 1

In this jsfiddle you'll find a solution I deviced. The idea is to have a selector pair in html and use (plain) javascript to filter the options in the dependent selector, based on the selected option of the first. For example:

<select id="continents">
 <option value = 0>All</option>   
 <option value = 1>Asia</option>
 <option value = 2>Europe</option>
 <option value = 3>Africa</option>
</select> 
<select id="selectcountries"></select>

Uses (in the jsFiddle)

 MAIN.createRelatedSelector
     ( document.querySelector('#continents')           // from select element
      ,document.querySelector('#selectcountries')      // to select element
      ,{                                               // values object 
        Asia: ['China','Japan','North Korea',
               'South Korea','India','Malaysia',
               'Uzbekistan'],
        Europe: ['France','Belgium','Spain','Netherlands','Sweden','Germany'],
        Africa: ['Mali','Namibia','Botswana','Zimbabwe','Burkina Faso','Burundi']
      }
      ,function(a,b){return a>b ? 1 : a<b ? -1 : 0;}   // sort method
 );