Responding to Dropdown choices

What's the Java-centric way to respond to the selection of an item in a drop down list in HTML that requires then refreshing the values in another drop down list? I need a user to be able to select "location" from a list and then populate a "Room" drop down with a list of rooms for that location. Thanks.
Ken

Put a javascript onchange event on the select box.
Thus you can detect a new item being selected.
At this point you can
1 - reload the page with the new items in the drop down
2 - use AJAX call to download the new items for the drop down.
If there are not a lot of total options then you may consider
3 - Download all possible options to the page, and use pure javascript.
If you want to use java, you have to trigger a request/response.
That normally means re-requesting the same page.

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catch [Exception]
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$form1.MinimizeBox = $False
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$buttonOK.Size = '75, 23'
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$InitialFormWindowState = $form1.WindowState
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$form1.add_Load($Form_StateCorrection_Load)
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$form1.add_FormClosed($Form_Cleanup_FormClosed)
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