Here's a very basic newbie question for you:

So far in experience I've ran CGI scripts from links and buttons and from placing absolute URLS directly into the Address bar on the browser. I'd like to be able to call a CGI script and have it return a value without redirecting the browser. This is pretty object oriented in theory:
<html>
<body>
<div ID=changeDIV>The answer will be here</div>
<input type=text value="Put a number here" name=input1><br>
<input type=button value="x2" onclick='changeDIV.innerHTML=somePerlCGI
+(document.input1.value, 2);'>
<input type=button value="x3" onclick='changeDIV.innerHTML=somePerlCGI
+(document.input1.value, 3);'>
</body>
</html>

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These calculations aren't my goal, obviously, or else I would do it with JavaScript. I'd like to be able to load new content into a page without reloading the entire page. Can this be done with CGI?

Thanks,
Petras

In reply to Running CGI Scripts without redirecting the browser by Petras

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