Set the default country

Chris Kastner:

I've just chucked this together which should address what you're trying to achieve.  I haven't tested it with the newer event registration form but seems to work with donations at least.  Just chuck this in an unformatted text page on your donation and event pages (or templates).


Basically, it checks to make sure you're not logged in (or your address is likely pre-populated), then it looks to find the country dropdown if it isn't matched to your default setting, and lastly makes sure that it doesn't run multiple times on the one form to stop it resetting back to a value if user has manually changed it to a different country.


May need to check how this would work with email links auto-filling forms, and possibly add in something that stops it running if the address lines are populated.

 

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<script type="text/javascript">

    var defaultCountry = "New Zealand"; //replace this with preferred country value

    var firstChange = true; //ensures this won't re-run on subsequent postbacks


    Sys.Application.add_load(function(){

        if ( LOGGEDIN == "" && $('select[name$="dd_Country"]').first().val().toLowerCase() !== defaultCountry.toLowerCase() && firstChange) {

            $('div[id$="_UpdatePanel"]').hide(); //hide the form to stop people entering while the form is reloading

            $('select[name$="dd_Country"] option').filter(function(){

                return $(this).val().toLowerCase() == defaultCountry.toLowerCase();

            }).attr('selected',true).parent().trigger('change'); //find the default country option, select it, and trigger the onchange function of the select list.

        } else {

            $('div[id$="_UpdatePanel"]').show(); //show the form

        }

        if ($('select[name$="dd_Country"]').length) { 

            firstChange = false;

        }

    });

</script>