Requiring a selection on a dropdown list?

[Ron]

Maybe more of an html question but here goes. I have a form with a
drop-down list I would like to require the user to make a selection on. How
would I go about doing this?

Thanks,
Ron

 

[Eric Schwartz]

Maybe more of an html question but here goes.

More like CGI, really. You want comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi,
over --> thataway.

I have a form with a drop-down list I would like to require the user
to make a selection on. How would I go about doing this?

Print the form again, with an error message, if they don't make a
selection. See the aforementioned CGI group for more details.

-=Eric

 

[dan baker]

Maybe more of an html question but here goes. I have a form with a
drop-down list I would like to require the user to make a selection on. How
would I go about doing this?
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well, the cgi group IS more in line with this, but if you are sending
the form to a perl script... you just have to check the contents of
the parameter, and send the user an error message or back to where
they came from...

use CGI qw( param );
my $FilePath = param( 'FilePath' );
unless ( $FilePath ) {

print "Content-type: text/plain \n\n".
"you need to make a selection for FilePath...\n" ;
}

remember that checking with javascript on the webpage is ok, but wont
protect you from anyone TRYING to send bad stuff as they can write a
script to feed your script whatever they want. You HAVE to check it
server-side.

d