Question : populate textarea and file input from a dropdown -- Ajax and jQuery

I need to query a mysql db for two fields: content_value and image_path, depending on the col_name  selected from a dropdown; then I need to populate a textarea and file input with the retrieved values.

Can anyone explain how to manage this using jQuery?

Answer : populate textarea and file input from a dropdown -- Ajax and jQuery

you can use php (or another backend language) to build up the myArray variable before the page load. this can become problematic if there are large amounts of text you need to store. alternatively you need to perform an ajax request. to learn about ajax requests follow this tutorial - http://www.talkphp.com/vbarticles.php?do=article&articleid=58&title=simple-ajax-with-jquery