I have had a similar design issue in the past - at that time, what I did was to create an empty <DIV> element at the top, then populate it later in the page using perl-generated javascript code that referenced the DIV.

update: Here is the Javascript function I called to update the DIV text: 

        function replaceText(sId, sText)  {
            var el;
            if (document.getElementById
                    && (el = document.getElementById(sId))) {
                while (el.hasChildNodes())
                    el.removeChild(el.lastChild);
                el.appendChild(document.createTextNode(sText));
            }
        }

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In my case, the ID belonged to a <td> element of a CGI generated table: 
  td({-id=>'SPECIALNAME_' . $g->Identifier},'N/A'), # The 'N/A' gets r
+eplaced

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In reply to Re: Possible to refer to variable defined later in script? by NetWallah
in thread Possible to refer to variable defined later in script? by jaffinito34

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