Posted by rwap on 01/31/37 11:53

Carl Lafferty wrote:
> I am trying to come up with a way to format some data that I have a perl
> script pulling from a server but I don't really know of a way to do what
> I want.. What I want is something like
>
> +---------------------+ +-------------------+
> |title1* | |Info for title1 |
> |title2 | | blah blah blah |
> |title3 | | blah blah blah |
> |title4 | | |
> |title5 | | |
> |etc.... | | |
> | | | |
> +---------------------+ +-------------------+
>
> something like this would be my screen. I want to be able to click on
> the left on a title (title1 is the one being displayed) and have the
> information that my perl script generated show in the right hand window.
>
> All this html has to be created on the fly.
>
> If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.
>

You could do this with Perl quite easily - create a template for the
page and then whenever you press the button, Perl would fill the
template with the correct information from a database (or csv file).
However, the whole page would need to be redisplayed which is not what
you want.

I think you need some JavaScript to do this - as the JavaScript can be
included within the HTML page itself - is there a better option?

Rich
www.internetbusinessangels.com

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