Yup, common as dirt. There are several Tutorials here at the Monastery. Here's a taste of how it works:

The HTML (has to be saved with .tmpl extension):

<tr>
   <td><span class="header">

      <!-- placeholder -->
      <tmpl_var name=listfor>'s List

      </span>
   </td>
</tr>            
<tr>
   <td>

      <!-- placeholder -->
      <tmpl_var name="list">

   </td>
</tr>
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The Perl:

use HTML::Template;
    
#tell H-T what page to display
$template = HTML::Template -> new(filename => "displaylists.tmpl");   
+ 
    
#connect to DB, SELECT, etc. then...    
@data = $sth->fetchrow_array();
    
#assign data to placeholders
$template ->param(listfor => $data[1], list=> $data[2]);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print $template->output;  #display html
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It's pretty easy once you get the hang of it. And the HTML designers will appreciate not having their design packed away in some Perl script.

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