TWO mistakes I am noticing in your example with select is that you fail to include a submit button. If you do not include a submit button in the form, then the select itself will never submit itself. The visitor has no way to submit the form.

You could link the submit action to the onChange event with JavaScript as poj showed you, but that means that even if the user selects the wrong item by accident, your program will submit the selected value. Lol A better way is to include a submit button as huck showed you in his example. So, the user should pick an item from the list and then should press "Submit" to submit the values to the perl script.

The second mistake is that the <SELECT> tag should not have VALUE="" defined in it! If you want a default item selected already when the user loads the page, you can achieve that by doing this. CORRECT WAY:

<select name="cars">
<option value="volvo">Volvo
<option value="saab" SELECTED>Saab
<option value="fiat">Fiat
<option value="audi">Audi
</select>

(Shh!! I'm just whispering to your ear: The closing tag for </OPTION> is also totally unnecessary.)

In reply to Re: return values on select after submit by harangzsolt33
in thread return values on select after submit by bigup401

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