valign top

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Re: valign top by Joost (Canon) on Aug 13, 2005 at 10:09 UTC
Your HTML is probably messed up. The piece you show here is not valid perl and not valid HTML. Also, this is a forum about perl, not about web-design / HTML. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: valign top by neniro (Priest) on Aug 13, 2005 at 09:30 UTC
Try to use htmltidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) on the resulting html. Consider using CSS for formating in the future.	[reply]
Re^2: valign top by dorward (Curate) on Aug 13, 2005 at 11:02 UTC
It would probably be a better idea to use a real validator thus fixing the errors in the source rather then always running the same errors through a fix-up script.	[reply]
Re: valign top by CountZero (Bishop) on Aug 13, 2005 at 12:05 UTC
It looks like you could really use some form of templating framework. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re: valign top by malaga (Pilgrim) on Aug 13, 2005 at 19:48 UTC
you're right. this is a bad post. i was going on 24 hours of no sleep and i didn't test enough before i posted. i just tested a simplified version of the code and there's no problem with valign. for the sake of answering the question i'll post the code, but as i said, it works. this lazy method i'm using probably "breaks" the html somehow, because the tags in format.pl are right but the valign tag isn't getting picked up. or maybe i'm still smoking crack. anyway, i have to graduate to a better way of handling html on this one. thanks again for the suggestions and the ass-kicking. i know i'm loved. Perl script: `require "format.pl"; & startcontent; #PRINT THE SUBMENU CONTENT FOR THE SELECTED MENU ITEM open (FILE, $content) or die "Can't open file!"; my @scoop = <FILE>; close(FILE); foreach my $sline(@scoop) { print $sline; } & endcontent;` [download] format.pl: `sub startcontent{ print <<'END'; <table> <tr> <td valign="top"> END }` [download] Malaga	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: valign top by malaga (Pilgrim) on Aug 13, 2005 at 12:47 UTC
ok ok...I can't get away with anything around here!! I'll do some homework and bring myself up to speed, but I still don't understand why the valign tag isn't being spit out just like all the others. thanks for the help! Malaga	[reply]
Re^2: valign top by Joost (Canon) on Aug 13, 2005 at 15:47 UTC
I still don't understand why the valign tag isn't being spit out just like all the others. thanks for the help! Since you show no code that indicates how "all the others" are printed, how are we supposed to know? also (from the OP. emphasis mine): valign seems like it's printing out alignment at the bottom instead of top of the file. I interpreted that as "the text in the cell is aligned to the bottom instead of the top". (Also note that CGI scripts usually don't print to a file at all). Since you don't provide the HTML output, and only the barest minimum of code, and your description problem appeared to be HTML related, how do you suppose we can help you? Please read how (not) to ask a question. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: valign top by malaga (Pilgrim) on Aug 13, 2005 at 11:08 UTC
i did find one other post on this when i searched valign - but no solution. so i thought maybe it was a perl problem. sorry folks. Malaga	[reply]
Re^2: valign top by Anonymous Monk on Aug 13, 2005 at 11:17 UTC
Its not a perl problem unless perl complains	[reply]


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