Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 08/03/07 11:52

Larry L [in Honolulu] wrote:
> I have a dropdown list dynamically created in a form by PHP from a MySql
> table. This is the only element on the page. For some records there is only
> a single selection, and if that's the case I'd like to just post that and
> go to the next page. Is there a simple way to do that using POST? I know
> how to do it with GET, but don't like the resulting URLs.
>
> Or is there a simpler method I'm not thinking about?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry

You're looking for a Javascript solution - client side, you know.
There's a submit() function that you can programatically fire in JS to
have the page submit a form.

<a href="javascript:submit();">Submit</a>

It'll retain that hyperlink look and feel, but actually be a post
instead of a get.

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