I managed to create a JavaScript that will copy whatever is selected from a
drop down into a text box, maintaining whatever has been typed before the
selection is made. So far, so good. This is the code, you can actually
copy/paste to a blank ASP page and test it.

<select name="s"
size="1" class="bodytext" onChange="document.form1.state.value =
document.form1.state.value+document.form1.s.options[document.form1.s.selectedIndex].value">
<option value=" "></option>
<option value="[Alien:FirstNm]">Alien - First
Name</option>
<option value="[Alien:LastNm]">Alien - Last Name</option>
</select>

You will need a form though.

Now, this is the problem. Instead of copying it to a text field I need it to
copy to the Advanced HTML Editor Box. the box ID is "editor1", I changed the
field 'state' to 'editor1' but this did not work, the text is not copied
over the html editor .... I was wondering if you know how to do this with the html editor, I tried some stuff some people proposed but did not help, since its your extension you might be able to tell me how to do it.

Thanks,

Alejandro

try this :

onChange="dmxedit_insertHTML("editor1",document.form1.state.value+document.form1.s.options[document.form1.s.selectedIndex].value);

Code will be inserted on cursor's position.


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I appreciate the help, but all it gives me is a syntax error.

My bad, should have used single quotes around editor1 instead of double. But if you had some more advanced javascript knowledge you would have spotted that:

onChange="dmxedit_insertHTML('editor1',document.form1.state.value+document.form1.s.options[document.form1.s.selectedIndex].value);"

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Thanks!