using CGI.pm for LINK tag for Stylesheet

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

How do I use CGI to generate

<head>
    <title>BLAH BLHA</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mycss.css" />
</head>

I mean using CGI.pm is the right thing to do right?
Or should I just skip it and do this

print <<HTML;
<head>
    <title>BLAH BLHA</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mycss.css" />
</head>
HTML
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and forget all about doing ...

$cgi->start_html ( -head=> ... bunch of switches I can't keep straight
+... );
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Re: using CGI.pm for LINK tag for Stylesheet
by tedrek (Pilgrim) on Jun 16, 2003 at 06:43 UTC

I'd suggest using HTML::Template rather than CGI.pm for the HTML aspects ( or another Templating system). Being able to seperate your code from your HTML really becomes nice later :) I see very few people actually using CGI.pm for generating the html, it's pretty much used just for the parameter parsing.

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Re: Re: using CGI.pm for LINK tag for Stylesheet

by nite_man (Deacon) on Jun 16, 2003 at 11:14 UTC

Embperl

Mason

post

      
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SV* sv_bless(SV* sv, HV* stash);

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Re: using CGI.pm for LINK tag for Stylesheet
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jun 16, 2003 at 06:50 UTC

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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Re: using CGI.pm for LINK tag for Stylesheet
by kutsu (Priest) on Jun 16, 2003 at 19:19 UTC

You might try Ovid's Course.

"Pain is weakness leaving the body, I find myself in pain everyday" -me

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Re: using CGI.pm for LINK tag for Stylesheet
by hacker (Priest) on Jun 17, 2003 at 02:32 UTC

This should get you started with a few different ideas. I use this code on a production site, and the two stylesheets mentioned fall back gracefully for all browsers tested; 14 total.

(Pardon the indenting, this is purely for PM formatting only)

$cgi->start_html(-title => 'Your Snazzy Page',
                 -head  => [$cgi->style
                           ({-type  => 'text/css',
                             -media => 'all'}, 
                             '@import "css/your.css";'),

            # nonstandard browsers, wget, LWP
            $cgi->Link({'rel'    => 'stylesheet',
                        'type'   => 'text/css',
                        'href'   => 'css/nonstandard.css'}),          
+    

            # only for printing
            $cgi->Link({'rel'    => 'stylesheet', 
                        'media'  => 'print',
                        'type'   => 'text/css',
                        'href'   => 'css/print.css'}),  

            $cgi->Link({'rel'    => 'shortcut icon',
                        'href'   => 'favicon.ico',
                        'type'   => 'image/x-icon'})],

                  -author  => 'you@foo.com',
                  -base    => 'true',
                  -bgcolor => '#fff',

                        -meta    => {
                           'keywords'      => 'this that',
                           'copyright'     => 'Foo, inc.',
                           'Cache-Control' => 'no-cache',
                           'robots'  => 'index,follow'});

            # Print the environment passed
            print "<!--\n";
            print map{"$_ is $ENV{$_}\n"} sort keys %ENV;
            print "-->\n";
}
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