> Seems like IE doesnt like any HTML file greater than 25Kb.

Nope...although it may be choking on your HTML. Try running it through the validator at
http://www.w3c.org

> As you can imagine, a "date-submitted" drop down menu
> repeated ten times on a page with each menu having 31
> items (for days) will suck up space. Is there anyway
> I can cut down on that crap to make the HTML file work?

The quick answer is, no. Even ten pull down boxes of 31 items is really not a lot, however. Make sure that Dreamweaver is not adding a lot of unnecessary junk to your HTML. You could also look at javascript. (with the inherent risk of alienating customers who do not use it) With javascript, you could probably write the dates out once, and have it duplicate the fields.

> ...if I split the form, I suppose I can get the users
> to do each separate part and then somehow merge all of
> the form entries and generate the report the boss wants.

Possible. but probably very annoying for the users. Better to try and put it all in one page. You could also have them type in the dates instead of using a pull-down, then validate the numbers (which you should be doing anyway, so people don't put in August 34th). Also a checkbox for "use last date" etc... This is more of a HTML question than a perl one, but to try and drag it back to perlmonks, take a look at CGI::FastTemplate - it does a fairly good job of creating HTML pages based on templates, and best of all, you can use perl to populate it.

In reply to Re: An interesting form question by turnstep
in thread An interesting form question by Mork

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