You can do this in pure Perl, too... you just have to refresh the screen following each selection. I might do it something like this: 
my %options = (
  main      => ["option1", "option2", "option3"],
  option1 => ["option1a", "option1b", "option1c"],
  option2 => ["option2a", "option2b", "option2c"],
  option3 => ["option3a", "option3b", "option3c"]
);

if ( !param() ) {
   $values_ref = $options{'main'};
} else {
   $values_ref = $options{param('distros_menu')};
}

print start_form();
print popup_menu(
        -name    => 'distros_menu',
        -values  => $values_ref,
);

print submit('which_distro_button');
print endform;

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But that takes you down the road of outputting HTML via CGI.pm, which will eventually make you want to take your own life. Better would be to use a template like HTML::Template and just output different values to the template on each refresh. Best solution though is probably either a pure JS or an AJAX-style solution (as already suggested), as it presents a better experience for the user.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

In reply to Re: CGI.pm and dynamic dropdown menus by Trimbach
in thread CGI.pm and dynamic dropdown menus by vxp

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