[9554] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: grayed out/conditional form selections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Cox)
Wed Jan 10 02:29:59 1996
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:18:02 +0800
To: rmenon@tisl.ukans.edu
From: S.Cox@solo.ned.dem.csiro.au (Simon Cox)
Cc: www-html@w3.org (HTML)
Resent-From: www-html@w3.org
>I was wondering if there are any ideas/plans to implement
>grayed out/conditional forms. I went through the FAQ and searched
>through the list archives for keywords that seemed relevant but
>there seems to be no mention of this.
>
>What I was thinking of is something like this:
>
><FORM METHOD=post ACTION="http://www.hal.com/sample">
><P><input name="gender" type=radio value="male"> Male <P>
>
><CONDITIONAL "gender"="male">
> We have a fine selection of ties for the well dressed man.
> What kind would you be interested in ?<p>
> <input name="tietype" type=checkbox value="flashy"> Look at me!<p>
> <input name="tietype" type=checkbox value="subdued"> Subdued.<p>
></CONDITIONAL>
>
etc
This is very similar to something I suggested a couple of months ago -
"nested" forms. This would give a sort of pull-right menu capability
to the FORMS interface, which would make pseudo-GUI construction very
doable.
Simon Cox
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