Recently, a visitor to this site asked me to expand on changing URLs via JavaScript, after reading my post on changing an IFRAME’s source via a drop-down list.

As a quick aside, I’ll do my best to answer any question that is posted in Yahoo! Answers if you e-mail it to me. There’s an envelope icon in the question; just use that to get to Yahoo! Answers’ e-mail form, send your question to dhvrm@yahoo.com and I’ll check your question out as soon as I can.

I won’t answer questions privately, meaning I will not e-mail an answer; I’ll only respond in Yahoo! Answers, on this Web site or in my Geocities adjunct site.

I answer questions because when I started out in programming, I needed a lot of help and I got it on the Internet. Now, I’m putting information back out on the Internet for other people who need it. Therefore, if you’d like my help, you need to share it with others. No private questions and no private answers, thank you.

That said, I got the person who asked me to post this question in Yahoo! Answers:

HTML code on How to link a drop down box item to a web page?

Check this url {snipped}
When somebody clicks on the name, it need to be linked to a existing web page in the site.
please provide me help.

It appears from the sample URL provided that this person only wants to go from one static HTML page to another. Which is easy enough, if we simply pirate the earlier iframe code and make some minor modifications. But to be thorough, I’m also going to address how to do this with server-side technologies, too.

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