Adding items to combobox using javascript

[shreedhark]

This question might seem silly, but for some reason the following code is not working for me

ddlNumbers.clearItems();
ddlNumbers.setItems([["California", "CA"],["Massachusetts", "MA"],["Arizona", "AZ"]]);

I execute this code in the click event handler of a button. For some reason the dropdown does not show these items, it only shows "Empty". What am I doing wrong?

When I do

     ddlNumbers.setItems("California");

     ddlNumbers.setItems("Massachusetts");

     ddlNumbers.setItems("Arizona");

Only last item (Arizona in this case) gets added to the combobox. I need to be able to set both text and value for the dropdown list.

Thanks
Shreedhar

[Niall_O_Donovan · Accepted solution]

Hi Shreedhar,

If you have a look at John Brinkman's blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2009/01/populating_list_boxes.html

You will see that the syntax for setItems() is different: coma separated list of display values and bound values, followed by the number of columns, currently "2".

Currency.setItems("US Dollar,USD,Canadian Dollar,CAD,Euro,EUR,United Kingdom Pounds,GBP", 2);

Hope that helps,

Niall

[shreedhark]

ahh, this works like a charm.I would never have figured this out by myself. The js_api_reference.pdf that is provided by Adobe has some incorrect information regarding setItems.

Thanks a lot. Much appreciated.

Shreeedhar