Hi monks,

I've an web form with two select menus - copy1 and copy2. If users want to add an item from copy1 to copy2, they simply select the item from copy1 and click on a "ADD" link to add the selected item to copy2.

<select name="copy1" mutiple size="3">
<option value="1" selected>Item1</option>
<option value="2">Item12</option>
<option value="3">Item3</option>
<option value="4">Item4</option>
<option value="5">Item5</option>
</select>

<select name="copy2" multiple size="3"></select>

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( The implementation comes with javascript code which I'm leaving out for brevity. )

Say 3 items are selected and they appear in copy2. The user then hits Submit.

How do I capture the 3 items from copy2 in the Perl script?

I hope my question is clear :)

Thanks in anticipation.

Update: There's an example at the url below:

http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/selectbox/index.html

The one I'm trying to implement is "Copying values from one select box to another".

In reply to Perl cgi - getting the values from select by kiat

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