README.md

countries-js

A JavaScript library to populate country & state dropdown lists containing all the country names and state names.

usage

You can call countries js in two ways

1. Using HTML data attributes

html markup for data-attributes

<div data-toggle-group="location">
  <div class="form-group">
    <label>Country</label>
    <select class="form-control" name="country" data-toggle="country" data-country=""></select>
  </div>
  <div class="form-group">
    <label>State</label>
    <select class="form-control" name="country" data-toggle="state" data-state=""></select>
  </div>
</div>

and call loadCountries() function on Document load

<script type="text/javascript">
  document.addEventListener("load", loadCountries());
</script>

to populate selected values use below data attributes

for country data-country=countryName

for state data-state=stateName

2. Using javascript

you can call populateCountries() function with countryElement and stateElement parameters

First find the elements and pass as parameters as shown below

<script type="text/javascript">
  var country_element = document.getElementById('#country);
  var state_element = document.getElementById('#state);
  document.addEventListener("load", populateCountries(country_element, state_element));
</script>

You can find the index.html for reference.

Thank you