The issue is probably the location of your css file: With the script generating the html page running in cgi-bin, the link to your css needs to be:

  1. RELATIVE to the location of cgi-bin...
            or
  2. ABSOLUTE with reference to your web root

PS: Unless FormMail at Matt's archive has been updated, it is rife with vulnerabilities, infelicitious code and the potential for other problems. Use nms (on SourceForge at nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml) from London Perl Mongers instead.

HTH


Sometime idjits hav'ta edit multiple times to get capitalization, punctuation, etc. correct. This is an example.


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In reply to Re: New to this... CSS styles are not applied to the HTML within the PERL script. Please help! by ww
in thread New to this... CSS styles are not applied to the HTML within the PERL script. Please help! by Anonymous Monk

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