Hmmmm ... personally, i would use a templating system for this kind of problem, but ... if you don't mind the perfomance hit, you could point each key in your hash to an anonymous subroutine that takes a single arg and calls the proper CGI subroutine: 
my $thisrow;
my @rows;
my %fields = (
   name       => sub { textfield(-name=>$_[0],-size=>50,-maxlength=>80
+) },
   email      => sub { textfield(-name=>$_[0],-size=>50,-maxlength=>80
+) },
   site_name  => sub { textfield(-name=>$_[0],-size=>50,-maxlength=>80
+) },
   descripton => sub { textfield(-name=>$_[0],-size=>50,-maxlength=>80
+) },
   comments   => sub { textarea(-name=>$_[0],-cols=>50,-rows=>10) },
);

foreach my $key (keys %fields) {
   $thisrow = td({-align=>'right',-valign=>'TOP'},$key)
      . td({-align=>'left',-valign=>'TOP'}, $fields{$key}->($key))
   ;
   push(@rows,$thisrow);
}

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However, i would never use that in any of my code. The way i see it, using CGI.pm HTML generation methods IS my abstraction. Wrapping that into something else seems a bit silly. Have you tried HTML::Template yet? You might find that it is all you need. ;)

p.s. don't forget that hashes are not ordered - you might want to try a list of hashes instead

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to (jeffa) Re: Generalising Forms from CGI.pm by jeffa
in thread Generalising Forms from CGI.pm by Cody Pendant

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