I agree with your opinion regarding HTML tags and CGI.pm but I have some comments.
If you use HTML 4.01 and use tag atributes like font or align, if you want to validate your HTML code to be a good HTML 4.01 document, you will get errors telling you that these atributes are deprecated. Instead, you can use style sheets. There are a lot of advantages if using this method. The disadvantage is that you should learn CSS. So instead: <td align="left"> You can write: <td style="text-align: left"> or if you want: <td style="text-align: left; text-family: Arial, Verdana; text-decoration: underline; text-weight: bold; text-color: blue;"> .... or a lot more atributes. You can specify even text-size: 14pt; you don't need to use those strange HTML sizes for a font. .... Or the CSS code can sit in a separate .css file and you can modify it for all your documents from there. Teddy Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Connie Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "jmpond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 11:01 PM Subject: Re: perl cgi and html table td tags.. First, I have to declare that below are my own opinion only. Second, I would like to give you a pure HTML sample for a 2x2 table. <table border=0 cellborder=0 width=100% cellspacing=1 cellpadding=1> <!-- border and cellborder are for NS and IE --> <tr> <td valign=top><div align=left>Col 1 Row 1</div></td> <td valign=center><div align=center><font size=+3>Col 2 Row 1</font></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=bottom><div align=right><font point-size=12> Col 1 Row 2</font></div></td> <td><div align=center><font size=-2 face="Sans Comic MS">Col 2 Row 2</font></div></td> </tr> </table> Third, I would say, CGI.pm can handle simple <tag></tag> with quite fair quality, but it should not for a table. Code will be so ugly and hard to debug. Imagine what will be the code looks like if there are table2 inside table1, while table 3 inside table 2 and Table3's first row want to span 2 column, while table 3 have 4 column. So I recomment you to write in this way : print <<"HTML"; <html> <body ..... > <!-- Some HTML Code --> </body> </html> HTML So, reserve CGI.pm for just handling Form data process and header printing and whatever functions, beside Table and Frame. Rgds, Connie ----- Original Message ----- From: "jmpond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 2:18 AM Subject: perl cgi and html table td tags.. Hello List, Here is my issue. Trying to use perl/cgi script to build a table in a form. Building the table is straight forward as the code snippet below works. The problem is -- How do I set up the code to align cell 1 right and align cell 2 left? Or more generally how do I set up the code to apply different HTML attributes to individual cells? print $q->table(( {-cellpadding=>"5", -cellspacing=>"0", -border=>"1", -width=>"100%"}, $q->Tr({-align=>'center'}, [ $q->td([" this is cell 1","this is cell 2"]), $q->td({-align=>"left"},[" this is cell 3"])]))); After that I will want to set up different font faces in each cell so any info on that would be helpful too. Thanks in advance for helping. Joe Pond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
