MyFreeCounter — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:12:53 +0000

I think the best option for you would be to do something with javascript. example:

&lt;script&gt;
var return_values=new Array(3);
return_values[0]="the value for your first returned row.  blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah";
return_values[1]="the value for your second returned row. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah";
return_values[2]="the value for your third returned row. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah";

function checkClick(id,checkbox,cell) {
if (checkbox.checked==true)
 cell.innerHTML=return_values[id];
else
 cell.innerHTML=return_values[id].substr(0,50)+"..."; //show the first 50 characters
}
&lt;/script&gt;
<form name=frm1>
<table style="width: 310px">
 <tr>
  <td style="width: 300px"><b>Returned Value</b></td>
  <td style="width: 10px"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td id="row_0"></td>
  <td><input type=checkbox name="ckbox_0" onclick="checkClick(0,this,document.getElementById('row_0'))"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td id="row_1"></td>
  <td><input type=checkbox name="ckbox_1" onclick="checkClick(1,this,document.getElementById('row_1'))"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td id="row_2"></td>
  <td><input type=checkbox name="ckbox_2" onclick="checkClick(2,this,document.getElementById('row_2'))"></td>
 </tr>
</table>
</form>
&lt;script&gt;
//populate the cells
checkClick(0,document.frm1.ckbox_0,document.getElementById('row_0'));
checkClick(1,document.frm1.ckbox_1,document.getElementById('row_1'));
checkClick(2,document.frm1.ckbox_2,document.getElementById('row_2'));
&lt;/script&gt;

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Busy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:28:36 +0000

If you don't have the select option you can do it, two ways come to mind.

1/ depending on the length of the result (maybe a whole book) you could just retrieve say the first 100 characters from database and use the checkbox beside each result, on submit they would open up (with another database query) or.

2/ with a bit of javascript do the same as above but output the whole result but hide the result after 100 characters with javascript and when checkbox click the whole result is shown without page reloading or another query. down side is if javascript disabled the whole thing may not be readable.

Thinking about it, you could use the select option to choose results, if the selects options where like: view 10 results on apples, or view newest members ... it would act like a predefined search query

JeevesBond — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:34:47 +0000

That's not feasible with the forms available at the moment, you could write a custom Flash movie, but that's generally a bad idea as it'll be more difficult to maintain and less accessible/usable (not everyone uses Flash and will also not expect to see checkboxes on a drop-down).

The simplest way around this is to use a select that allows multiple selections, you do this using the "multiple" attribute. For example:

<form action="index.html">
<select name="funtybunt"  multiple="multiple">
	 <option>Funtybunt</option>
         <option>Funtybunt Again</option>
</select>
</form>

Plop this code into an HTML page, then open it, you'll see a list box with both these values in. Hold down control and click each of them in turn, both will be selected.

Hopefully this will do what you want!