Invisible Body Tag Attribute

robersl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, I am trying to pass a value for an onLoad attribute through to the body tag via a CGI.pm, v1.62 start_html statement. I can do this cleanly with manual HTML tags, but CGI.pm leaves a blank space in the body tag proportional in size to the value I am trying to pass in. My code looks like this:

print  $q->header(),
       $q->start_html(-dtd=>'-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0           Transition
+al//EN', 
        -script=>{-language=>'JavaScript',
        -src => '/daily_word.js'},
        -onload => 'document.forms[0].elements[1].focus()');
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Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

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Re: Invisible Body Tag Attribute by pg (Canon) on Mar 04, 2003 at 04:06 UTC
I tried your code, and it is okay. I am using AS5.8.0, and $CGI::revision = '$Id: CGI.pm,v 1.62 2002/04/10 19:36:01 lstein Exp $'; $CGI::VERSION='2.81';	[reply]