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In so much that it no longer does what it's supposed to, notice that the output isn't 'pretty', from the docs:

'It will be removed from the CGI distribution in a future release, so you should no longer use it and remove it from any code that currently uses it.

For now it has been reduced to a shell to prevent your code breaking, but the "pretty" functions will no longer output "pretty" HTML.'

It then continues to give examples of better ways of doing this. Regardless OP has already had templating systems and other frameworks suggested to them.

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Re^4: div in cgi
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 13, 2018 at 15:26 UTC
    There is some confusion about CGI::Pretty and CGI::HTML::Functions .

    At least in my head...

    update

    the OP is using functions which are (currently) exported by CGI and not by CGI::Pretty, but documented in CGI::HTML::Functions

    X:\>perl -MCGI=:standard
print li (
           div({"class=inforno"}, "<img src=''>")

          );
__END__
<li><div class=inforno><img src=''></div></li>

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    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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      I don't know what confusion you have on this, maybe if you explain it I can offer an opinion. From reading the docs the maintainer is working hard to patch things that are show stoppers, while firmly telling people not to use this stuff for anything new, with a bunch of good reasons why. Regardless, people keep recommending it and no doubt finding all the old posts online for getting things done in perl using CGI and friends.

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        I have to dig out old documentation resp. pirated O'Reilly books to find out what CGI::Pretty used to do.

        According to the alternative code Lee is showing I'd expect that it's parsing and tidying HTML.

        According to the O'Reilly snippet it just adds newlines and indentation to CGI's HTML-Functions.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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