If it's either of the first two then people have given you some options to explore already... if it's the later, you'll almost certainly have to refactor your design... the suggestion of populating the boxes via scripting is a good one, but I've done this extensively and so can tell you that it will become a bottleneck in a hurry, no to mention the fact that the perceived performance of your site can vary greatly depending on the clients' PC.
Hence, my suggestion... once you determine where the greatest amount of time is actually spent, then folks can probably help in a hurry :)
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com
John Fletcher wrote:
Cliff,
but each select in each list has the same options.
If each select in each list has the same options, you can just download the options once to a javascript array and populate all of the select boxes on the client side. A quick example:
<script language="JavaScript"> var optionArray = {<c:out value="${myValuesCSV}" />};
function populateBoxes() { var mySelectBox; // You'll need to do this for each box on your form for (var i = 0; i < optionArray.length; i++) { mySelectBox.options[i] = new Option(optionArray[i], optionArray[i]); } } </script>
Call that populateBoxes function on startup. Who knows how long that'll take to populate client-side, but it should reduce your page size considerably. If you need different values than text in the select boxes, you could either have a 2-dimensional array (which would require different formatting for the values, or a different method of printing them out in the javascript), or you could maintain 2 arrays, one for values and one for text. Note that you will need to know all of the names of the select boxes unless you want to just loop through all of the form elements and do the action for any of the select form elements that you find.
Your CSV string that you drop into the optionArray will need to have strings quoted if necessary of course.
John
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