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How to create active drop down lists without using CGI

Would you like to have a space saving drop down list on your page containing a list of your favorite pages that you can visit with a simple button click as in the example below? Don't worry if you don't have CGI access; the above drop down list was implemeted using JavaScript. Let's look at the source code (simply paste the following code block and customize it to add a drop-down list to your page): The onClick code is the magic code that instruct JavaScript enabled browsers to redirect to a different location depending on the selected drop-down list item. To have the selected page open in a window other than inside the current document, if you're using frames for example, use the following onClick code instead (assuming "win_name" is the name of the new window or target):