Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am not sure if this is a Perl question or a HTML form question. But anyway, I have a Perl CGI script that handles a HTML form. The form posts to itself. When the form posts to itself, the form is rebuilt and below the form are the results (if any) in a table.

I realize that I am needlessly rebuilding the form each time I make a form post. So why not split the form in frames? This would be okay, except I want the bottom frame to appear "transparent" as if it is not there. I don't want more than one scroll bar on the entire page. I am wondering if I should go with an iframe, but I have never used one before. The form must work with IE. Would I just post the form results to the bottom iframe to achieve my objective? Thanks.

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Re: CGI form post to iframe?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 18, 2006 at 21:07 UTC
Re: CGI form post to iframe?
by Joost (Canon) on Sep 18, 2006 at 20:57 UTC