Best practice for populating dropdown based on oth

Question

I would like to create a form that contains dropdown fields. After entering text or selecting an option in one dropdown I would like to populate the options in another.

Is there a best practice for doing so specifically with web2py?

Answer 1

Check out this lazy options widget (with usage example) as well as these recipes:

• Cascading Drop Down Lists
• Cascading Select Based on Python Lists
• Cascading Drop Down Lists with Ajax