So what I am doing is creating a link that when clicked loads a perl function, display, then through the same click passes a variable to a sub in perl. What this is for is when a user clicks a title of a post it expands then will query a sql server to display the content under the expanded title. So, the code you posted I would have to remove the text attribute and make that a href then have an onclick event assocate with it to load display, and to pass the variable to exported_func