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Actually I have a CGI form which consists of
textfields and I need a combobox in which I can
enter my own data dynamically. May be it seems very
silly question but I am new to cgi-perl as well as
HTML so no idea what to do. Here is my form:

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  1.     #!C:\perl\bin\perl.exe
  2.  
  3.     use CGI;
  4.     use CGI qw/:standard/;
  5.     use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
  6.     my $q = new CGI;
  7.     use DBI;
  8.     use CGI qw(:all);
  9.     use strict;
  10.     use warnings;
  11.     print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
  12.     print $q->header ( );
  13.  
  14.     if ( $q->param("submit") )
  15.     {
  16.     process_form ( );
  17.     }
  18.     else
  19.     {
  20.     display_form ( );
  21.     }
  22.  
  23.  
  24.     sub process_form
  25.     {
  26.      if ( validate_form ( ) )
  27.      {
  28.       display_form ( );
  29.       }
  30.       }
  31.  
  32.  
  33.      sub validate_form
  34.      {
  35.      my $User_Name = $q->param("User_Name");
  36.      my $User_Password= $q->param("User_Password");
  37.      my $User_Permission = $q->param("User_Permission");
  38.      my $User_Department= join(", ",$q->param
  39.      ("User_Department"));
  40.      my $error_message = "";
  41.      $error_message .= "Please enter your name<br/>" if
  42.       ( !$User_Name );
  43.      $error_message .= "Please enter your Password<br/>" 
  44.       if( ! $User_Password );
  45.      $error_message .= "Please Select a permission<br/>"
  46.       if( !$User_Permission );
  47.      $error_message .= "Please select atleast 1  
  48.      department<br/>" if(!$User_Department);
  49.  
  50.      if ( $error_message )
  51.       {
  52.         display_form (
  53.    $error_message,$User_Name,$User_Password,$User_Permission
  54.     ,$User_Department);
  55.         return 0;
  56.       }
  57.      else
  58.      {
  59.      my $dbh = DBI->connect
  60.     ("dbi:SQLite:DEVICE.db","", "",{RaiseError => 1,
  61.      AutoCommit =>
  62.       1 } );
  63.      my $sql = "SELECT COUNT(UserName) FROM UsersList 
  64.       WHERE UserName='$User_Name'";
  65.      my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die("\n\nPREPARE 
  66.     ERROR:\n\n$DBI::errstr");
  67.       $sth->execute or die("\n\nQUERY 
  68.      ERROR:\n\n$DBI::errstr");
  69.      my ($n) = $dbh->selectrow_array($sth);
  70.      $sth->finish();
  71.      if ($n > 0) {
  72.      print "Record Already Exists";
  73.      }
  74.       else {
  75.       my $sql = "INSERT INTO UsersList 
  76.       (UserName,Password,Permission,Department) VALUES 
  77.       ('$User_Name ',' 
  78. $User_Password','$User_Permission','$User_Department')";
  79.        my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
  80.        $sth->execute;
  81.       print "Record Added Successfully";
  82.       $sth->finish();
  83.       $dbh->commit or die $dbh->errstr;
  84.         }
  85.        $dbh->disconnect;
  86.        }
  87.        }
  88.  
  89.           sub display_form
  90.      {
  91.       my $error_message = shift;
  92.      my $User_Name = shift;
  93.       my $User_Password = shift;
  94.      my $User_Permission= shift;
  95.      my $User_Department= shift;
  96.  
  97.      my $User_Permission_Add_sel = $User_Permission 
  98.       eq "Add" ? " checked" : "";
  99.      my $User_Permission_Edit_sel =$User_Permission
  100.      eq "Edit" ? " checked" : "";
  101.      my $User_Permission_Delete_sel =$User_Permission
  102.        eq "Delete" ? " checked" : "";
  103.      my $User_Permission_View_sel =$User_Permission
  104.         eq "View" ? " checked" : "";
  105.  
  106.      my $User_Department_html = "";
  107.      my $dbh = DBI->connect
  108.       ("dbi:SQLite:DEVICE.db","", "",{RaiseError => 1,
  109.        AutoCommit =>
  110.       1 } );
  111.      my $sql = "select DepartmentName from Departments 
  112.        order by DepartmentName";
  113.       my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
  114.        $sth->execute() ;
  115.  
  116.      while (my  $User_Department_option= $sth- 
  117.          >fetchrow_array)
  118.      {
  119.        $User_Department_html.= "<option
  120.        value=\"$User_Department_option\"";
  121.        $User_Department_html.= " selected" if (
  122.         $User_Department_option eq
  123.         $User_Department );
  124.  
  125.         $User_Department_html.= ">$User_Department_option</option
  126.        >";
  127.       }
  128.       $sth->finish();
  129.       $dbh->commit or die $dbh->errstr;
  130.       print <<END_HTML;
  131.       <html>
  132.      <head><title>Form Validation</title></head>
  133.      <body>
  134.  
  135.      <form action="AddUser.cgi" method="post">
  136.      <input type="hidden" name="submit" value="Submit">
  137.  
  138.      <p>$error_message</p>
  139.  
  140.  
  141.      <TABLE BORDER="1" align="center">
  142.       <TR>
  143.      <TD>Name</TD>
  144.      <TD> <input type="text" name="User_Name" 
  145.         value="$User_Name"></TD>
  146.      </TR>
  147.  
  148.       <TR>
  149.     <TD>Password</TD>
  150.      <TD colspan="2"><input type="password"
  151.          name="User_Password" value="$User_Password" 
  152.        size="20" maxlength="15" /></TD>
  153.  
  154.       </TR>
  155.       <TR>
  156.      <TD>Role</TD>
  157.      <TD>"HERE I NEED A COMBOBOX"</TD>
  158.       </TR>
  159.  
  160.     <TR>
  161.      <TD>Permission</TD>
  162.       <TD><input type="radio" name="User_Permission" 
  163.        value="Add"$User_Permission_Add_sel>Add<input 
  164.        type="radio" name="User_Permission"
  165.        value="Edit"$User_Permission_Edit_sel>Edit<input 
  166.         type="radio" 
  167.        name="User_Permission"
  168.    value="Delete"$User_Permission_Delete_sel>Delete<input
  169.        type="radio" name="User_Permission" 
  170.     value="View"$User_Permission_View_sel>View</TD>
  171.     </TR>
  172.  
  173.     <TR>
  174.     <TD>Department</TD>
  175.     <TD colspan="2"> <select name="User_Department" 
  176.       MULTIPLE
  177.       SIZE=4>$User_Department_html</select></TD>
  178.  
  179.     </TR>
  180.     </TR>
  181.     <TR>
  182.     <TD align="center" colspan="2">
  183.     <input type="submit" name="submit" value="ADD">
  184.     </TD>
  185.      </TR>
  186.      </TABLE
  187.       </form>
  188.  
  189.        </body></html>
  190.        END_HTML
  191.  
  192.      }
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