In jquery jqgrid, Is there anyway to have dropdown delayed until chosen?
Check this out:
Markup:
<select id="ddl"> <option value="-1">Select One</option></select>jQuery:
$("body").delegate("#ddl", "focus",function(event){ //ajax call here, and then append items $(this).append("<option value='1'>Option 1</option>"); $(this).append("<option value='2'>Option 2</option>"); $(this).append("<option value='3'>Option 3</option>"); $(this).append("<option value='4'>Option 4</option>"); $(this).append("<option value='5'>Option 5</option>");});jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/9asfG/
I think you can do it in server side also, in the code you can add an if-statement to check inside the $_POST["_search"], if this is true, then loop inside $_POST, find if the dropdown-search condition been post, if no, echo something blank or whatever to stop the code, if yes then continuing loading data from DB.
PS.: My personal opinion, maybe it's not a good idea to "delay" the result, cause user might don't know he need to select the dropdown first, it's not a good design from user experience point of view.