I am not even sure it is possible, but I wanted to see if I could nest forms. Both forms work indivdually but when put together I can't get them to work. Any help??

<form name="contact" method="post" action="VCEntryVerify.cfm">
<input type="text" name="PurchaseDate">

<FORM NAME="categoryform" METHOD="POST" ACTION="">

<SELECT NAME="Customer" onChange="change_Contact_menu(this.selectedIndex);">
<OPTION VALUE="null" selected>Customer</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="null">---------------------------------</OPTION>
<CFOUTPUT QUERY="Customer">
<option value="#CustomerID#">#Customer#</option>
</CFOUTPUT>
</SELECT>

<SELECT NAME="Contact_select" >
<OPTION VALUE="null" selected>Contact
<OPTION VALUE="null">---------------------------------
<OPTION VALUE="null">
<OPTION VALUE="null">
<OPTION VALUE="null">
</SELECT>

</FORM>

<input type="hidden" name="Email">
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

Another question, is it possible to have the values that were selected in the drop down boxes (in the inner form) to be an input in the outer form?

Thanks,
Mindy

Overall I am tring to develop a form that submits and sends the info to a database. I am also wanting to have drop down boxes that change on click. The selected values in the drop down box should be sent to the database.

Hi Mindytruitt

Nested forms? Not a good idea. From your description, you only need one form. You can arrange in block with a dive inside the form or, even multiple "fieldset" tags. I am not into CF but, something like:

<form name="contact" method="post" action="VCEntryVerify.cfm">
<fieldset>
<label for="PurchaseDate">Purchase Date:<input type="text" id="PurchaseDate" name="PurchaseDate"></label>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<label for="Customer">Customer:
<select id="Customer" name="Customer" onChange="change_Contact_menu(this.selectedIndex);">
<option value="null" selected>Customer</option>
<option value="null">---------------------------------</option>
<cfoutput query="Customer">
<option value="#CustomerID#">#Customer#</option>
</cfoutput>
</select></label>
<label for="Contact_select">Contact:
<select id="Contact_select" name="Contact_select">
<option value="null" selected>Contact</option>
<option value="null">--------------------------------- </option>
<option value="null"></option>
<option value="null"></option>
<option value="null"></option>
</select>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<input type="hidden" name="Email">
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</fieldset>
</form>
I am assuming that you want to change the content of the second select according to the value seleced on the first? In that case I would download all values to arrays and populate client-side from there. Look at Vinny's site grassblad (http://members.aol.com/grassblad/) for two or three examples of achieving that.