Thanks for your suggestions. I really want to stay away from plug-ins, and isn't Active-X Microsoft only? I will still follow up with the javajunkies.org group, but in the mean time my plan now is to use Perl CGI and generate the entire page. It's kind of like using Perl CGI as PHP. When the Perl script receives the post for getting data for the form, it retrieves that data from the server, then it reads the html docs page from the server, and then merges the two, setting the fields to default to the live data, and then serves back one complete web page with the frames and forms all set with all the required fields. This eliminates the need to cross name spaces within the browser. It is a compromise, but would be fine for my app. Does this sound reasonable? Irv

In reply to Re^2: Moving cgi data between variables in differnt frames. by sailmaine
in thread Moving cgi data between variables in differnt frames. by sailmaine

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