You really can't do that directly, take a look at Re: THe td and Tr functions of CGI.pm. Sorry, i had some code posted here, but it didn't do the job. To be quite honest, trying to generate fine grained HTML like that is better suited for another module. Have you seen HTML::Template yet? (hint, hint) ;)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
F--F--F--F--F--F--F--F--
(the triplet paradiddle)