You should create the template from the output of the CGI, not from the code.
perl -MCGI=:standard -e 'print popup_menu({ -name => "query",
-values => [1, 2, 3],
-labels => {qw{ 2 label2
+1 label1 3 label3 }},
-default => 2 })'
<select name="query" >
<option value="1">label1</option>
<option selected="selected" value="2">label2</option>
<option value="3">label3</option>
</select>
Update
So, using
Template, the following seems to work:
Template call:
template 'index', { name => 'query',
options => { label1 => 'Option 1',
label2 => 'Option 2',
label3 => 'Option 3',
},
default => 'label2',
};
The template:
<select name="<% name %>" >
<%- FOR o IN options %>
<option value="<% o.key %>"
<%- IF o.key == default %> selected="selected" <% END -%>
><% o.value %></option>
<%- END %>
</select>