warm crescent
Hey there!
<%= options_for_select(["Size": ["XS", "S", "M", "L", "XL"]], nil) %>
I have this line inside my html to make a select menu with those options, i was wondering how can i get the value of 1 option to a function?
Wrong Example :
<%= get_value (options_for_select(["Size": ["XS", "S", "M", "L", "XL"]], nil)) %>
Any thoughts how can i do that? Thank you 🙂
fringe rune
Can you expand on what you're trying to achieve? I'm not sure I understand the question
options_for_select will generate some html, right? And you pass the values as arguments so it can generate that.
So what do you mean by "get the value of 1 option to a function"? If you want to know what the user selected, you'd have to submit the form and get the value from the body params. Or use an event if you're using liveview, it's hard to tell without more context
warm crescent
Can you expand on what you're trying to achieve? I'm not sure I understand the q...
Hi @fringe rune , first of all thanks for your help , yeah that's what i mean i have a select menu with a bunch of options and i want to get the value of a option when it is selected.
Do you think the best way to do that is by a form?
fringe rune
It depends, are you using regular phoenix "dead" views? lieview? what do you want to do with the value?
warm crescent
i'm using a liveview, and i want to use it on my index.ex with the option value
fringe rune
then you can either listen for the form submit event and get the value from the form params that you receive in the event handler, or use a phx-change event and listen to that to know what the user selects when they select it
It's been a long while since I used liveview, but I think this page has the details https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/form-bindings.html