Dear Perl Monks,

Is it possible for Perl-CGI scripts to react to a user's selection on the form? I have a few popup menus on my form and when the user selects one entry in a popup form, I need to change the options in another.

Is it possible to do this in Perl itself or do I need to use Javascript? I am using code of the form: 

    print "<p><em>Enter Chip" ;
    print $query->popup_menu(-name=>'Chip',
                             -values=>$arrRefC,
                             -default=>'all');

    print "<p><em>Enter Chip Rev</em> &nbsp ";
    print $query->popup_menu(-name=>'Chip Rev',
                             -values=>$arrRefCR1,
                             -default=>'all');

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I get the desired functionality, except that, I need to change  $arrRefCR1 to, say,  $arrRefCR2 when the user changes his selection on the chip popup menu.

I would greatly appreciate any advice from the monks.

Thanks,
Ashish.

In reply to Can Perl/CGI scripts respond to user selection? by Anonymous Monk

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