On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 08:46 +0000, Marcus Claesson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I wonder if there is any way in Perl CGI that you can select an item in
> a popup menu and execute a command WITHOUT having to click a submit
> button? For instance, this is what I want to do:
>
> I have a popup_menu with names of several values.
> print $cgi->popup_menu(-name=>'list',
> -id=>'list',
> -values=>['L1','L2','L3']);
>
> As soon as the user selects a value I want it to be automatically
> printed out.
>
> if ($cgi->param('list')) {
> print "Selected value: ".$cgi->param('list');
> }
>
> This is a very basic thing if you allow a submit button, but I don't
> want to do that. Any ideas?
This might be CGI::Ajax. I have hand coded my ajax so far, it requires
javascript knowledge and a real clue stick (mastering ajax on
developerworks was my starting point).
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Ken Foskey
FOSS developer
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