Welcome to the web world: there will never again be such a wonderful thing as "default way"! hehehehe
As I understand your task, you want to have a matrix of a (long list?) 20 rows X 4 columns.
You can build it in HTML with a table and use <input type=text id=A1> for each cell of the table to have editable fields. I would suggest having input id be a composite column:row combo: A1, B12, etc. This will look like an excel spreadsheet, almost ;->
The easiest thing is to build this table dynamically server-side with JSP.
Cheers,
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Tedi Zanfolim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:30 AM
To: JDJList
Subject: [jdjlist] Table like form filling on the Web
Hi Guys,
Again, I am quite new to the Web world, and this
might be a very simple question.
I have a page and on which I want the user to type
a long list of rows. The rows can have 2 or 3 columns.
I suspect that the "default way" of doing this is
asking the user to fill one column at a time in, lets
say, 3 input fields and them submit this to be
appended in the next page, that will show all the
previous itens in a table. My question is: is that too
much resource intensive? If I do that, will my server
be overloaded? Is there any other simple approach of
doing this?
Some guys told me that it is possible to make an
"editable table" using JavaScript and them allow the
user to submit all the table rows at once. Would that
be a good practice? I am concerned about the behaviour
of this in both IE and Netscape, since I don?t know
how JS works in both browsers (IE and Netscape) -
Probably, I will have session timeout problems if I do
that too, but it would be the next issue.
Thanks a lot for your time.
Tedi
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