Re: Tabular monstrosities

Better would be to use the OO interface, as it simplifies things immensely. I would suggest rewriting to that interface and 99% chance the problem will resolve itself. (Rewrites usually resolve niggles, in my experience.)

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Re: Re: Tabular monstrosities by shotgunefx (Parson) on Mar 31, 2003 at 22:27 UTC
I would disagree about using the OO form for the html subs. It's gets ugly quick. Though you would need it for form inputs if you have multiple objects (That or local $CGI::Q = $cgi; before the form fields) -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature." Update To be honest, I'm suprised this was down-voted. I'm curious what the arguments for this `print header(), table ({-border=> "0", -width=> "340"}, Tr ({-valign=> "top"}, td ( font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"}, " Column One ", ), "\n", ), "\n", td ( font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"}, " Column Two ", ), "\n", ), "\n", ), "\n", Tr ({-valign=> "top"}, td ( font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"}, " Data ", ), "\n", ), "\n", td ( font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"}, " Data ", ), "\n", ), "\n", ), "\n", ), "\n", ;` [download] verse this are `print $cgi->header(), $cgi->table ({-border=> "0", -width=> "340"}, $cgi->Tr ({-valign=> "top"}, $cgi->td ( $cgi->font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"}, " Column One ", ), "\n", ), "\n", $cgi->td ( $cgi->font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"}, " Column Two ", ), "\n", ), "\n", ), "\n", $cgi->Tr ({-valign=> "top"}, $cgi->td ( $cgi->font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"}, " Data ", ), "\n", ), "\n", $cgi->td ( $cgi->font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"}, " Data ", ), "\n", ), "\n", ), "\n", ), "\n", ;` [download] They are both functionally equivalent for non-form fields, only the first is more shorter and clearer to read. Unless you are subclassing CGI.pm and have special instance specific stuff tied to the HTML generation of non-form fields, why would you use the latter?	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Tabular monstrosities
by shotgunefx (Parson) on Mar 31, 2003 at 22:27 UTC

local $CGI::Q = $cgi;

Update

print header(),
   table ({-border=> "0", -width=> "340"},
   Tr ({-valign=> "top"},
    td (
     font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"},
      " Column One ",
     ), "\n",
    ), "\n",
    td (
     font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"},
      " Column Two ",
     ), "\n",
    ), "\n",
   ), "\n",
   Tr ({-valign=> "top"},
    td (
     font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"},
      " Data ",
     ), "\n",
    ), "\n",
    td (
     font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"},
      " Data ",
     ), "\n",
    ), "\n",
   ), "\n",
  ), "\n",
 ;
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print $cgi->header(),
  $cgi->table ({-border=> "0", -width=> "340"},
   $cgi->Tr ({-valign=> "top"},
    $cgi->td (
     $cgi->font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"},
      " Column One ",
     ), "\n",
    ), "\n",
    $cgi->td (
     $cgi->font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"},
      " Column Two ",
     ), "\n",
    ), "\n",
   ), "\n",
   $cgi->Tr ({-valign=> "top"},
    $cgi->td (
     $cgi->font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"},
      " Data ",
     ), "\n",
    ), "\n",
    $cgi->td (
     $cgi->font ({-face=> "verdana,arial"},
      " Data ",
     ), "\n",
    ), "\n",
   ), "\n",
  ), "\n",
 ;
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