I have an html page with a table in it. The table takes its data from one form in my application (lets call the form "FNA form").

I'd like to have the option to filter the data in the table, with 4 possible fields to filter by.

I figured my solution is to embed a stateless form to my page, next to the table, and to have its field passing parameters to the html page, filtering the data I fetch from the FNA form.

 - note - I do not want to embed a report to the html page, for many reasons this is not a relevant solution.

Two questions - 

1. Is there a more elegant way to pass a parameter to the html page, instead of a stateless form? 

2. in case I have to use a stateless form, I want the fields to be in a row instead of a column. How can I achieve this?

Thanks

Ravid