-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Williams wrote: >> I have tried that and when I tried to call up a div object, in my css >> (is attached) called leftcolumn, instead of getting a navy blue column >> on the left side of the page it is just white. >> > > Did you perhaps use 'div class='leftcolumn' ? > > That will not work with your stylesheet. > > div id='leftcolumn' *will* work > > Here is a little cgi program that uses CGI.pm and your style sheet to print > a some stuff in a blue column on the left side of the screen: > #!/usr/bin/perl > use warnings; > use strict; > use CGI; > > my $q = CGI->new(); > print $q->header(), $q->start_html(-title=>"list msg test", > -style=>{'src'=>'/css/se.css'}), > '<div id="leftcolumn">'; > for (my $i = 1; $i < 26; $i++) { > print $q->br("blue column line $i"); > } > print '</div>', $q->end_html(); > >
I have tried div id but they way I tried it was different, this is how I tried it print "<div id="leftcolumn">"; print "Some information"; print "</div>"; I guess that I was doing something wrong because it is working now thank you for the help >> - From what I see in the tutorial, >> >> http://template-toolkit.org/docs/tutorial/Web.html#section_Dynamic_Content_Generation_Via_CGI_Script >> , >> the Templete Toolkit only outputs information from the script, but I >> need it to handle input as well, my script I am working on is a >> guestbook so it needs to get the name of the guest and a message then >> output it, as well as save it to a log for later use by the script. >> Everything works but the plain white background is ugly and doesn't >> match the rest of my site which is why I started this thread. >> > > You seem to be under the mistaken impression that you cannot get input using > CGI.pm or Template::Toolkit. > > That is incorrect, either of those tools allow you to generate forms that > can be used to get input from the user. > > If you look at perldoc CGI the very first screen contains an example of how > to generate a form. > I know how to generate forms with CGI which is where I have been putting my forms, but I didn't think that Template::toolkit could generate a form and pass the information off to the script for processing. > Hope this helps, > > Mike > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklIC5sACgkQRMKiLy/EUZTjqgCgnQj5UdmboFiqq0VkmY4i6VYD m6gAn2kcHUDfKNtSk89NSqlU1w/ugrOu =WL/f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/