Hello, Mr Muskrat, sorry about the delay in getting back to you - I've been waiting for some time to go through this properly.

Firstly this is a definite solution to the problem - it is throwing the calendars, with their specific day arrays into a container table.
Secondly, I don't understand it!!

Well, there are one or two things that are new to me and perhaps if you have a little time you wouldn't mind explaining them to me?

In the sub CreateCal: push ( @days, [ @day ] ); # store the days of each calendar
you're storing an array into and array, I thought that would need a %hash. What is the significance of the [ ]?

After #Embolden headers, the line: my @color = @{ $days[$calnum] }; # the days to be colored
seems to be a hash of some sort but I'm afraid I don't quite get it. (I do get the fact that you are storing an array of dates and then extracting them, but I don't understand the mechanics).

I'm very impressed at the simplicity of what you have achieved compared to the Heath Robinson approach I had embarked upon - this looks like the real thing.

I have also been trying very hard to get the calendars to fill different rows:
the line  $t->cell( 0, $calnum )->push_content( $cals[$calnum] ); pushes all the calendars along a single row.

If we generate a new table: 


# Generate container table
my $t = new HTML::ElementTable ( maxrow => 12, maxcol => 3 );

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then how can I get the calendars to fill across and then down to the next row?

By using  $t->cell( $calnum, $calnum )->push_content( $cals[$calnum] );
the calendars fill diagonally, and I had hoped that by using 

# Populate container table
for my $calnum ( 0 .. $#cals ) {
my $row = int(my $calnum/4);
   $t->cell( 0, $calnum )->push_content( $cals[$calnum] );
}

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that might do the trick, but I am left with a blank screen. In fact everything I have tried pretty much leaves me with a blank screen!!

If you have any ideas on the latter and perhaps give an explanation of the former I would be very grateful

Many thanks, though, for your help so far...

In reply to Re: Possible Solution for Generating a container table in HTML::CalendarMonth by jonnyfolk
in thread Generating a container table in HTML::CalendarMonth by jonnyfolk

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