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    copied!<p><strong>Due to restrictions of editing some of my templates I really need your help with:</strong></p> <ol> <li>generate a select list with predefined options instead of input field</li> <li>input field to be hidden after select is generated</li> <li>when some option selected transfer that option's value into that hidden input</li> </ol> <hr> <p><strong>I provide some HTML to be more clear:</strong></p> <p><em>This is what we've got in the template before jQuery is applied:</em></p> <pre><code>&lt;input type="text" id="myId" name="myName" value=""&gt; </code></pre> <p><em>This is what we need it to be after jQuery is applied</em></p> <pre><code>&lt;select id="mySelect"&gt; &lt;option&gt;a&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;b&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;c&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;input type="text" id="myId" name="myName" value="" style="display:none"&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Please note:</strong> I need to predefine options value and their quantity. Select must be generated right where input field was.</p> <p><strong>Also</strong>: I also really need to generate two or more select lists in some templates and transfer selected option's values consistently into one input.</p> <p>Example:</p> <pre><code> &lt;select id="mySelect1"&gt; &lt;option&gt;a&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;select id="mySelect2"&gt; &lt;option&gt;b&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;input type="text" id="myId" name="myName" value="a b" style="display:none"&gt; //a + b added </code></pre> <p><em>Thanks in advance!</em></p>
 

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