Posted by David Dorward on 08/23/05 23:30

allanrodkin@hotmail.com wrote:

> I am a newbie. I am programming in Perl and dynamically generating
> html. I want to call two functions on the click of a button, one a
> javascript function and also a Perl function.

Perl almost always runs on the server, JavaScript almost always runs on the
client.

So you would /probably/ do something like:

<form action="myPerlScript.pl" onsubmit="someJavaScriptFunction()">
<div>
<input type="submit">
</div>
</form>

OR

You would have your Perl script output something along the lines of:

<script type="text/javascript">
someJavaScriptFunction();
</script>

.... depending on what data needed to be sent to the Perl script and what
order you wished the JavaScript function and Perl subroutine to run in.

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