G'day edwardsmarkf,

Welcome to the Monastery.

You have a simple typo. The '=' in "-valign = 'bottom'" should be '=>'; cf. "-height => '100'".

that was typo, sorry. similar to the "stubmit" button on the perlmonks edit page. 😁 had i used the code without the arrow, i assume it would have thrown an error.

You have changed the text of your post without indicating that you did so.

My post, with "-valign = 'bottom'", will not make sense to subsequent readers. I also see that tangent has wasted time trying figure out what's wrong with "-valign => 'bottom'" (see his post).

I know you're new here and I'm not trying to beat over the head with a rule book. It is fine to make edits to your posts but you need to indicate what you've changed. Please read "How do I change/delete my post?" and add an Update: paragraph to your post.

— Ken

use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $html = $cgi->TR(
    { -height => '100', -valign => 'bottom' },
    [
        $cgi->th(['Vegetable', 'Breakfast','Lunch','Dinner']),
        $cgi->td(['Tomatoes' , 'no', 'yes', 'yes']),
    ]
);
print "$html";
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<tr height="100" valign="bottom">
    <th>Vegetable</th>
    <th>Breakfast</th>
    <th>Lunch</th>
    <th>Dinner</th>
</tr>
<tr height="100" valign="bottom">
    <td>Tomatoes</td>
    <td>no</td>
    <td>yes</td>
    <td>yes</td>
</tr>
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Just in case you are unaware: HTML Generation functions should no longer be used says:

These functions, and perldoc for them, are considered deprecated, they are no longer being maintained and no fixes or features for them will be accepted.

is there some easy workaround to this issue?

Quick fix:

print q(<tr valign="bottom" height="100">);
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Hi edwardsmarkf and welcome to the site. This question does not relate to a discussion of PerlMonks or the PerlMonks site. It would more appropriately have been posted under Seekers of Perl Wisdom (SoPW). Please see the PerlMonks FAQ and PerlMonks Sections.