A praiseworthy attempt to conserve bandwith.

Alas, your code is not doing what you think it is doing: the routine to output your image is only called when the whole of the page is refreshed. <div>-tags are no magic method to suddenly update pages piecemeal, although they are part of the solution and that solution is --as has been said before-- AJAX (or "asynchronous JavaScript and XML").

If you do not want to learn another language (Javascript), check out canned solutions such as Prototype. Installing it is easy through CPAN: Alien::Prototype, HTML::Prototype or if you want to make it part of the Catalyst web-framework: Catalyst::Plugin::Prototype.

Different but in a similar vein is HTML::Dojo (Dojo homepage)

Check it out and keep my bandwith free so I can download my LOLcats even faster!

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In reply to Re: html output to div tag without submitting the form by CountZero
in thread html output to div tag without submitting the form by ksublondie

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