[ale] OT: HTML, Forms and Buttons?

[Robert L. Harris]

I don't use the frames to manage data.  The left frame is the index with
links to perl/cgi scripts which give output in the right frame.  Most of
these scripts have forms.  When I click the Submit button it opens a new
window to display the output instead of overwriting the same window.
The frames are used strictly for Navigation.  I've done a VERY little
with CSS just for setting backgrounds and some text formatting.  If I
can make it look better using CSS than www.rdlg.net looks I'd LOVE to do
it.  
  This is a "for fun" project and I don't have time though to go read
a 700 page manual.  If someone has some examples they can show and the
code with a "This syntax makes THIS happen" that I can look at and see
then great, that'll work wonders and I'll have time to do it.


Thus spake George Carless (kafka at antichri.st):

> > What I was trying to get across is that if the page is written in PHP
> > (on the backend), the form can self-submit, which will get around the
> > need for frames.
> 
> I don't understand what this is supposed to mean... if you have a form, 
> you by necessity need to 'do something' with the form, so I don't see 
> what 'self-submitting' has to do with anything, really.  PHP won't 
> automatically give you anything in terms of navigation that hard-coded 
> HTML won't; you'd need to code something.  And for a simple application, 
> SSI would probably be an easier option.  
> 
> Beyond that, though, I'm with you.  PHP (or really any other server-side 
> technology) is pretty powerful and can make life easier for people.  
> 
> --George
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