Dynamic drop down lists, which logic is more semantic?

[JohnMotylJr]

I plan on making a series of dropdown lists for a user to select in the contact area. They will populate depending on what the first choice is. Should i:

A.) Create all the elements (more mark-up) and hide and show them depending on the last selection?

or

B.) Use JS to dynamically create the selections for the user depending on the last selection?

I can totally do both but wanted some feedback from you guys as to what would be more logical.

And when i say dropdown list im referring to < select > < / select >

[trollster]

Check this out if you haven’t:
[Dynamic Dropdown](https://css-tricks.com/dynamic-dropdowns/ “https://css-tricks.com/dynamic-dropdowns/&#8221;)

I personally followed the first method from the above link. Yeah, it turned out to be a bit lengthy because I had to do for 3 levels. But it was worth it because I had to store files under each of these lists.

[JohnMotylJr]

@trollster, hey thanks for the link. Thats what i needed.

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