Almond wrote:

> The best solution I see is JSRS by Brent Ashley. It can did the above
> within same page. It give you the control like using telnet programs.
>
> Have a field to allow the user enter code/data to search, and use JSRS and
> php to return the pick list content. The site have a demo with a drill down
> effect. I use it to let the user have a partial select feature on pick list.

This is interesting... I will take a look at it.

> I once use a separate window to update the main frame, but the user didn't
> like to click the submit button so many time :(.

In these kind of situations I usually preload everything into JS array
and in first dropdown list I have onChange event handler that fills the
second dropdown list with selected data from JS array. I use it on
tables that have few thousand rows without any problems.

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