i am extremely new to the whole perl/html/cgi/sql etc etc scene.

i have a form that has five separate pull down menus. it is at the top of a page that has about 150 different names of ships, and data related to them (the fact that they're ships isn't relavant to the problem... i just thought that'd be nice to know). the user is supposed to select ONE of ships from ONE of the menus. when they do, it is then supposed to take them to the place in the page that is about that ship.

i have the form all set up, along with a pretty little submit button. i also already have the "a name=ship_name" tags in all the places.

i was wondering what i should put in the FORM tag besides METHOD=POST. i don't know what the action should be, where the data goes, or what i should do with the data once the submit button is hit. if possible, i would like to contain the code within the document i have the rest of the code written in (which is a cgi document).

thanks in advance for your help. if i didn't give enough information, feel free to email me at blue_serge@hotmail.com

-cassie

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