Re: First Internet application

Aaron, CGIDEV2's CrtTagOpt (create tag: option) subprocedure makes dynamic 
selection boxes easier to do.  You can read about it at 
http://195.183.8.2/cgidev2h/readme.htm#xxxwrkhtml


Mel Rothman, CGIDEV2 Author
IBM eServer Custom Technology Center (eCTC), Rochester, Minnesota
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/ctc/
http://www.easy400.ibm.it/en


"Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" wrote:
>
> I have a question about putting HTML in the CGI program.  If I have
> drop-down list box is there a way for me to return back to the user what
> they selected without dynamically coding the <select> tag in RPG.  For
> example if I outputted this HTML the first time:
>
> <select>
> <option>A</option>
> <option>B</option>
> <option>C</option>
> </select>
>
> and the user selected option C.  So now when I re-display the page I want
> that to be selected I now have to code the select statement like this:
>
> <select>
> <option>A</option>
> <option>B</option>
> <option selected>C</option>
> </select>
>
> Is there a way to do this in a template?
>
> I have gone the route where I try to have as much HTML in the IFS as
> possible, and then I read it into my program at the appropriate time.  But I
> have noticed that it comes to a point where I forget what pieces of HTML I
> coded in my program what I coded in the IFS so I start a hide and seek game.
> So right now I code most off my HTML in my CGI programs and bigger chunks of
> HTML in the IFS.
>
> >From what I have read CGIDEV would fix most of my problems and I just need
> to take the time to learn it.
>
> Aaron Bartell

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