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[boomobile]

Can you do this for "product options" selection box as well? Some of our customers don't realize that if they don't choose an option, then x-cart will use the first option. I want the box to read, "Please make a slection" and not be able to process until they do.

Does anyone know the code and where to place them?

[kube]

That may, I would have thought, require a little more involvement including a few templates to edit and digging through the relevant javascript file that it talks to.

1. You would need to create in .tpl a default OPTION, say "Please choose".
2. With the js if the OPTION still remains as "Please choose" prompt with an alert.

There's probably more to it than that. But i haven't got 4.0 code on me

[bobb]

No need for code. Make the first option ( # zero) a heading like CHOOSE XYZ.. Then don't allow it pass validation.

if (product_option('RATIO_+_UNIT').selectedIndex == 0)
{ alert('You must select a ratio and carrier!'); return false; }

else { return true; } 

Well that is code, but it gets input as data!

[carpeperdiem]

Here's another way to do this:

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?p=189859#post189859

[carlisleglass]

Improved it a little bit - say you have enter a search term, click away from the box by accident and click back on it, it will clear the contents. This coding will check to see if anything apart from the default text is in the box, and if the default text is not in the box, will not clear it.

value="{$lng.lbl_my_text}" onFocus="if(this.value=='{$lng.lbl_my_text}') this.value='';" onBlur="if(this.value=='') this.value='{$lng.lbl_my_text}';" />

[kube]

Thanks carlisle works great,

I was going to post something not to dissimilar to that - but I was worried about filling your page with excess code.