Never use HTML to achieve layout, only semantic structure. All formatting should be via CSS. Use templates. They are easy once you get the hang of them. HTML widgets are not your friend, especially not long term and super duper especially not 19 year-old abandonware with perl4 idioms. CGI has better HTML routines in it, should it come to that, and is tested and current.

<html lang="en-lolcat">
 <head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /
+>
  <title>I CAN HAZ FRENS?</title>
  <style type="text/css" media="all">
html,body {
 height:100%;
 width: 100%;
 font-family:"trebuchet ms","helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif;
 margin: 5% 10%;
 padding: 0;
 font-size:16px;
}
h1.literal {
 white-space:pre;
}
h1.hang {
 text-indent:-2rem;
 margin-left:2rem;
}
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <h1 class="literal">OHAI DER,
   …FREN</h1>
  <h3>…or possibly more correct…</h3>
  <h1 class="hang">OHAI DER,<br/>…FREN</h1>
  <p>Other options no doubt exist at this point in the CSS game.</p>
</body>
</html>

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In reply to Re: Newlines in HTML::LoL by Your Mother
in thread Newlines in HTML::LoL by BernieC

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