Tablular form - delete and submit

Hello,
I have a tabular form where i can update some fields and i can delete some rows.
I display 50 rows at a time and the user want to mark the rows to be deleted and perhaps make some changes on some other rows.
The problem is that when he click either the submit or the delete button, the canges he has made are gone. So he either has to find the rows ha want to delete again or he has to set the changes he wants again.
My question is how can I do the update before the delete with the submit button, can i just link the delete procedure to the submit button?

You will need to find a way to chain both the update and the delete functionality. Other than creating the entire thing yourself, the only thing I could suggest would be to get the delete functionality included as part of the submit by adding the following as the URL Target of the Submit button's definition:
javascript:confirmDelete(htmldb_delete_message,'MULTI_ROW_DELETE');
As long as this runs ok, it should then continue on with the normal submit.
Andy

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import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.security.*;
import java.net.*;
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     TextField telephone;
     TextField email;
     TextField address;
     TextField postCode;
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     int authorisationCode ;
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