The sample code below is from Ovid's CGI Course. I keep trying to teach myself how to code with CGI qw/:standard/ but I can't figure it out. My question is what is the logic which determines when one must end the line with a comma. One of the TD closures does not have one and the code works but Lord hep ya if you mess with any of the others.

I also am confounded that I cannot seem to break out from the print command in after I start the table but before creating cells. Other than Ovid's fine course can someone direct me to a tute. I really prefer rolling my own HTML cause I get it, but the other monks keep teasing me, err...
TIA
jg

table( { -bgcolor     => "#000000", 
                 -border      => "0", 
                 -cellpadding => "2", 
                 -cellspacing => "1", 
                 -style       => "font: 10pt;" }, 
          Tr( { -style => "background-color:#CCCCCC" },
            td( strong( "User Name:" ) ),
            td( input( { -maxlength => "30", 
                         -name      => "username", 
                         -size      => "30",
                         -type      => "text"} )
            ) # end td
          ), # end Tr

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