Hi,

I am trying to do dynamic dropdown menu, of sorts. The idea is to have a dropdown menu like the one visible on nvidia drivers download page. You select the first choice, and then depending on what your first choice was, a second dropdown menu gets populated with possible choices/options that are 'related' to the first choice. Um. Yeah, I'm not being very articulate at describing this..Here's what I have now, which is pretty much a code snippet to generate a dropdown menu with choices in @distros. Basically I need some pointers, if possible, on what to do next to achieve the goal above. People choose "centos", for instance - so a second dropdown generates choices with centos versions. Somebody chooses "ubuntu" - a second dropdown gets generated with available ubuntu versions.. etc.

Thanks! 

if ( !param() ) {

    print start_form();
    print popup_menu(
        -name    => 'distros_menu',
        -values  => \@distros,
        -default => 'centos'
    );
    print submit('which_distro_button');

    print endform;
}
else {
    $which_radio_button = param('distros_menu');
    print $which_radio_button;
    $q->end_html;
}

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