[PLUG] Small script webapps

Joe Pruett joey at clean.q7.com
Sat Dec 12 23:30:45 UTC 2009


> Speaking of apache/HTML, I would really appreciate it if someone could
> point me to the HTML CGI verbiage needed to call a function to return
> the _initial_ contents of a user-changeable text/numeric box. I found
> many many functions for calling a function on this, that, the other
> thing, butterfly flapping its wings in Central Park, etc. etc. etc.
> NOTHING that would provide initialization at runtime (initial page
> load) via a CGI call, static HTML page.
>
> I looked around for a couple weeks on and off and then gave up. What
> did I miss? Shirley there must be something...

well, what you describe can't be done.  but maybe you're not describing 
what you want adequately?  you can possibly accomplish your goal by 
putting html fields of type hidden into your form to track the original 
values of things?



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