Typically, the choices in a Dropdown box control are either static or the result of a database query. However, you might want to dynamically populate the choices in a Dropdown box control using Javascript.

In this video we show how this can be done. We also show how you can implement cascading choices in a dropdown that is populated using Javascript. The advantage of implementing cascading dropdownboxes using Javascript is that the child dropdown boxes are populated without having to make an Ajax callback. So this technique will work in disconnected applications.


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