Custom Drop Down box in Ruby on Rails with links as a couple of the options.

Question

So...basically, I want this in my drop down:

•Nothing
•Option 1
•Option 2
•Option 3
Link to another page
Link to another page

I tried throwing a link_to to a select tag... that didnt work... any ideas?

Answer 1

I don't think there would be a way to do such a thing only using Rails as rails would only put your options under HTML <option> tags for the select box.

You would have to put an onchange attribute which points to a JavaScript function which would do your redirection using window.location.