in reply to Nirvana through the templating yin yang (TT2 / CGI.pm)
Probably also obvious to those who've tried it, but you can do the same thing with HTML::Template. I realized it only very recently.
I originally had a drop-down list that I coded similar to:
(the values came out of a database lookup), but that lost the stickiness. I then realized I could cook up the select in CGI, and pass it to the template. So the only thing in the template file was just <tmpl_var name="the_whole_select">and I passed it the result of $q->popup_menu, and presto, stickiness returned. It's just a slight variation. (BTW, those samples are from memory, so there may be some inaccuracies in there.)<select name="the_thing"> <tmpl_loop name="select_thing"> <option value="<tmpl_var name="select_value">"> <tmpl_var name="select_tag"> </option> </tmpl_loop> </select>
The nice thing about it is that all the "real" presentation stuff is still in the template; it's a lot more convenient than before, with a very slight loss of maintainability.
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