CGI.pm, by default, doesn't insert \n anywhere in its output. What you are seeing is not the result of CGI.pm inserting "crlf" into your CGI program's HTML output. You can run the script from the command line and verify that statement yourself.

What you are seeing is the fact that most browsers automatically render "headlines" one per row. In other words, a <h1></h1> pair always (in most browsers) renders on its own line, even if it's only a few characters long, and a subsequent <h2></h2> pair will render on a subsequent line, again, even if it's only a few characters.

This isn't a Perl issue. It's truly an HTML issue. And I mean that not to try to pawn a problem off somewhere else. Seriously, it's not a Perl issue. It's a misunderstanding of how HTML works. You can solve it by using <font size=....></font> tags instead of headline tags in situations where you wish to control font size instead of rendering a headline.

Dave

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Re: Re: Layout
by liz (Monsignor) on Nov 13, 2003 at 16:50 UTC

However, there is a yucky way to get them on one line:

<TABLE><TR><TD><H1>Hello</H1></TD><TD><H2>world!</H2></TD></TR></TABLE
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Hello
world!
I have no idea how you would do this with CGI.pm.

And yes, I know this isn't XHTML compatible. XHTML compatible HTML shouldn't contain abominations like this ;-)

I also would recommend against using it this way: there are other, better ways for controlling the size of your text in HTML.

Liz

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Re: Re: Layout
by hardburn (Abbot) on Nov 13, 2003 at 17:08 UTC

I think setting the CSS attribute white-space: pre-wrap on the two header tags will do it. Not sure, though.

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Re: Re: Re: Layout

by clscott (Friar) on Nov 13, 2003 at 18:01 UTC

What's supposed to be the way to do this is display attribute:

.inline {
   display: inline
}

<h1 class='inline'>First</h1><h2 class='inline'> - Second</h2>
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First

- Second

Well that's what supposed to work. --
Clayton

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Re: Re: Layout
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 13, 2003 at 16:48 UTC

thanks
alan.

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