Hi Monk
I am working on a web application which looks like

Case I

Given a hostname provided in the text field if I press the
"Show jobs" button, it submits a form and loads the
same page with a popup_menu populated under the text
field and "Show jobs" button with all the jobs
running on that host.
Now I select a job in the popup_menu by a mouse click
on the values listed in the popup_menu. All fine so far.

Case II

Now to the right-hand side of this case -I gui objects, I
have another text field and "Show jobs" button. If I carry
out the same operation as I did in case-I on this
text-field and "Show jobs" at the right-hand side , it
submits the form and fetches one more popup_menu with
all the jobs running on this new host.
In addition to that the case-I text-field, submit button and popup_menu also appears on the reloaded page.
But the problem is the Case-I selection in the popup_menu is getting lost.

Please help me on how can I retain that Case-I selection as well when the page is submitted in Case-II and reloaded.
A sample code I am giving here below, the variables used in popup_menu are the usual array refs used in any such implementation and $qry is the cgi object. 

<table border=0>

     <tr>

              <th bgcolor="#CCCCEE">First_Host</th><th>&nbsp;</th><th 
+bgcolor="#CCCCEE">Second_Host</th>

      </tr>

      <tr align=center>

             <td nowrap>@{[ $qry->textfield(-name=>'HOST_1') . '&nbsp;
+' . $qry->submit(-name=>'HOST_1_LIST', -value=>'Show jobs') ]}</td>

              <td>&nbsp;</td>

             <td nowrap>@{[ $qry->textfield(-name=>'HOST_2') . '&nbsp;
+' . $qry->submit(-name=>'HOST_2_LIST', -value=>'Show jobs...') ]}</td
+>

     </tr>

     <tr align=center>

             <td bgcolor="#EEEEEE">@{[ $qry->popup_menu(-id=>'PM1', -n
+ame=>'PM1_JOBS', -size=>10, -values=>$old_values, -labels=>$old_label
+s, -multiple=>'false', -override=>'true', -onChange=>"fetchjobs(id,''
+,'','')") ]}</td>

           <td bgcolor="#EEEEEE">@{[ $qry->popup_menu(-id=>'PM2', -nam
+e=>'PM2_JOBS', -size=>10, -values=>$new_values, -labels=>$new_labels,
+ -override=>'true', -onChange=>"fetchjobs(id,'','',        '')") ]}</
+td>

             

       </tr>

</table>

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In reply to How to retain popup_menu selection between form submission by ghosh123

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