How can I force CGI to use the variables I give it when creating a form

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When I am at a page which has a param of page=>'thispage' I try to create a form like so

$page="nextpage";
$query->textfield('page',$page);
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The page textfield now has a value of thispage and not nextpage how can I force CGI to not use the current value of the parameter?

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Re: How can I force CGI to use the variables I give it when creating a form by merlyn (Sage) on Dec 19, 2000 at 23:17 UTC
Search for "sticky fields" in the documentation. In particular, notice references to "override" and "delete". -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: How can I force CGI to use the variables I give it when creating a form by steveAZ98 (Monk) on Dec 20, 2000 at 19:45 UTC
You can also set it explicitly `$query->param('page'=>'nextpage');` [download] HTH	[reply] [d/l]