Re: Display large text fields in html

If you have over 1000 entries, each one with ~10 lines of text, I would go with frames. Not inline-frames, but a true frames. So each change can load the frame and show the information. Also, a <select> with 1000 entries? Break it apart. For example make one with (imagine this is a select in your browser): /------------------------------\ Abba .... Bee Gees |V| Beethoven .... Coolio | ManyOptions .... ZillionOptions | \-------------------------------/ It's an interval of choices, first the user selects the interval, which loads another select with only these "in between" entries. -- Julio Nobrega. Um dia eu chego lá: http://sourceforge.net/projects/toca Ajudei? Salvei? Que tal um presentinho? http://www.submarino.com.br/wishlistclient.asp?wlid=664176742884 "Jan Peuker" <jan.peuker@janus-graphics.de> wrote in message news:006c01c1eb07$28d79500$7ca990d4@toshiba... > Hi List, > > I want to display large text fields if a user changes wants to, like a > dictionary. for example, a php-database generated page hosts a combobox > filled with ids, if a user changes it, a text otherwhere changes. Simple > Javascript would you say, but what's if this combobox has about >1000 > entries(every entry about 10lines of text)? The page loads and runs very > slow. But I don't want to reload the page everytime the user changes the > field. Do you know any solution? > I know a few: a) As is said, a 2nd textbox filled with value coming from > array. > b) The box is filled by a set of textfiles which are generated before > c) above but w/ layer > d) no box but an image, b/w-gif generated by php > e) inline-frameset which is reloaded > f) an applett which get its resource by getURL > g) ... > As I said, do you know which would be the best? > Thanks a lot, > > Jan > > PS. Yes, I think this is rather a PHP question. >