Hello Monks,

I am new to perl and my first task is to create form that will either: allow the user to select an existing file and edit it, or create a new one.

The whole button situation I am at a complete loss. I have no idea how to get the buttons to allow the user to navigate between the pages.

Without having to post my entire .cgi; is there a common way to present buttons in CGI that open new pages. In my situation one page would be a form populated by a file that the user would select from a dropdown box. And the other page would be an empty form.

I have been actively looking for a solution for this for about two days and I'm about to go insane.

In reply to CGI form help with buttons by SteveVsPerl

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