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Popup Menus

With CGI::Form, popup menus, also referred to as drop-down lists, are single selection lists that expand when the user clicks the icon to the right of the text. Unlike listboxes, popup menus can only return a single selection. Popup menus use the <SELECT> tag with SIZE equal to 1:

<SELECT NAME='State' SIZE=1>

 <OPTION>CA

 <OPTION>WA

 <OPTION>OR

 <OPTION>NV

 <OPTION>AZ

 </SELECT>

Using CGI::Form, a call to the method popup_menu, is shown here:

@states=( `CA', `WA', `OR', `NV', `AZ' );

 $q->popup_menu( -name=>'State', -values=>\@states, -default=>'CA' );

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