[Omaha.pm] Perl CGI, start_form(), and alt tags...

[Rob Townley]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> I'm working on a simple Perl CGI script that displays some data in a
> table, and allows the user to click on a button to drill down into
> that specific data.  The code presents the drill-down links as
> submit-type buttons in the table, and that seems to be my issue.
>
> The table data is useful in itself as something that might be
> cut-n-past'ed into an e-mail.  Unfortunately, the data that is used
> for the submit button text isn't captured when the user tries to copy
> the table.  Here's a bit of HTML that shows this behavior:
> ======= begin HTML =======
> <table border=1>
> <td>Omaha</td>
> <td>
> <form method="post" action="drilldown.cgi" alt="111">
>  <input type=submit value='111' alt='111'></input>
> </form>
> </td>
>
> <td>
> <form method="post" action="drilldown.cgi" alt="222">
>  <input type=submit value='222' alt='222'></input>
> </form>
> </td>
>
> <td align=center>33.3%</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> ======= end HTML =======
>
> If you view that with Firefox, the first and last columns are simple
> text, and the middle two columns are buttons with alternative text.
> When a user copies-and-pastes this into a text editor, only the
> "Omaha" and "33.3%" fields are copied, the "111" and "222" are copied
> as blank cells.
>
> I tried adding "alt=" values to the submit buttons but that didn't help.
>
> Anyone have other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
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Adds another set of clicks but print.css may be converted to do what you want.

JavaScript onselect?