Quick CGI Question

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Re: Quick CGI Question by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Aug 27, 2002 at 18:38 UTC
`perl -MCGI=:standard -e'print p({-id=>"foo"},"Bar")' <p id="foo">Bar</p>` [download] You can even make up new attributes, and CGI.pm will try to do the right thing. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Quick CGI Question by the pusher robot (Monk) on Aug 27, 2002 at 18:26 UTC
Use a hash ref as the first arg. Any keys will be used as attributes: `div({id=>'div1'}, "text"); <div id="div1">text</div> a({href=>'http://perlmonks.org', id=>'pmlink'}, "Perlmonks.org"); <a href="http://perlmonks.org" id="pmlink">Perlmonks.org</a>` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Quick CGI Question by peschkaj (Pilgrim) on Aug 27, 2002 at 18:18 UTC
Ah, so it cannot be appended to elements? E.G. `<table id="inputTable"> or <div id="myDiv">` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Quick CGI Question by Chady (Priest) on Aug 27, 2002 at 18:24 UTC
from perldoc:CGI: If the first argument is an associative array reference, then the keys and values of the associative array become the HTML tag's attributes: so doing: `table({-id=>"blah", ....` gives you what you want on any element. He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life. Chady \| http://chady.net/	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Quick CGI Question by fglock (Vicar) on Aug 27, 2002 at 18:12 UTC
(I removed my answer) update: sorry, I didn´t understand the question. I thought "id" was something like a form "input" field name. See below for correct answers.	[reply]