Variabalizing the action will get the job done but best will be using a cgi to do it because you can process some other input data with cgi if u r not using cgi then u can only forward to another static page
Sign L Rakhitha Malinda Karunarathne Web :- rakhitha.cjb.net Email :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rakhitha Malinda Karunarathne. ----- Original Message ----- From: "drieux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "cgi cgi-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 10:41 PM Subject: Re: Selecting a Static HTML page > > On Monday, Jan 6, 2003, at 08:41 US/Pacific, Hagen Finley wrote: > [..] > > > > After hours of groping around I did find a syntax that kind of works > > - > > > > <FORM ACTION="array1.html" METHOD="GET"> > > > > I figure if I variablize the file name then the select tag could input > > the > > file name I need into this FORM ACTION statement. Is that the way to > > do this > > or is there a preferrable method? > [..] > > actually that 'action' element will need to be the > name of the cgi code that will know what to do with > the selection.... > > <form action="SelectHost.cgi" method="POST" target="_top"> > <select name="sysname" size="1"> > <option value="linux1">linux1</option> > <option value="sun1">sun1</option> > </select> > </form> > > that will return > > sysname=linux1 > > if the user does not scroll through the menu... > > Remember that 'raw html files' - foo.html - do not parse > the query strings handed to them in the 'GET|POST' methods... > > > ciao > drieux > > --- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
