Posted by David Dorward on 11/22/05 20:57
Huub <"h.v.niekerk at hccnet.nl"> wrote:
> I'm writing a file which has a selection-form that should display the
> contents of a predefined directory.
Assuming that "selection-form" means "A form containing a <select> element",
then you need to populate that element with suitable <option> elements.
HTML cannot read a directory and generate markup from it, you would need to
use some form of server side processing. The specifics of which would
depend on the capabilities of your webserver.
> I found the <dir> tag but it appears to be depricated.
Which was intended to markup directory listings, not to generate them.
> Is there any tag I could or should use for this task?
No.
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