In the script below I am having trouble printing the form results in a clean alignment. You can view the script at http://sulfericacid.perlmonk.org/tags.pl, fill in all the fields and click submit to see the results.

The first line prints the text <br> rather than printing the line break and on the first line it prints two form elements on the same line (when it should all be broken down on their own line like the rest of the script).

Can someone show me how to break the first line into two lines and remove the <br>? 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
use strict;
use warnings;

my $adv = "Advertise your script here!";
my $adminmail = "sulfericacid\@qwest.net";
  
  use CGI qw/:standard/;
  print header,
        start_html(),
        start_form,
        "Email Address: ",textfield('usermail'),p,
        "Author: ",textfield('author'),p,
        "Distributor: ",textfield('distributor'),p,
        "Copyright: ",textfield('copyright'),p,
        "Abstract: ",textfield('abstract'),p,
        "Keywords: ",textfield('keywords'),p,
        "Description: ",textfield('description'),p,
        "Distribution: ",textfield('distribution'),p,
        "Robots: ",textfield('robots'),p,
        "Rating: ",textfield('rating'),p,
        "Language: ",textfield('language'),p,

        submit,
        end_form,
        hr;

my $abstract = param('abstract');
my $usermail = param('usermail');
my $author = param('author');
my $distributor = param('distributor');
my $keywords = param('keywords');
my $description = param('description');
my $distribution = param('distribution');
my $robots = param('robots');
my $rating = param('rating');
my $language = param('language');
my $copyright = param('copyright');


my $tags ='';
if (param('abstract') ne "") {
    $tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="abstract" content="$abstract"&gt;<br>)
+;
}
if (param('author') ne "") {
    $tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="author" content="$author"&gt;<br>);
}
if (param('distributor') ne "") {
    $tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="distributor" content="$distributor"&gt
+;<br>);
}
if (param('copyright') ne "") {
    $tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="copyright" content="$copyright"&gt;<br
+>);
}
if (param('keywords') ne "") {
    $tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="keywords" content="$keywords"&gt;<br>)
+;
}
if (param('description') ne "") {
    $tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="description" content="$description"&gt
+;<br>);
}

$tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="generator" content="$adv"&gt;<br>);

if (param('robots') ne "") {
    $tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="robots" content="$robots"&gt;<br>);
}
if (param('language') ne "") {
    $tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="language" content="$language"&gt;<br>)
+;
}
if (param('distribution') ne "") {
    $tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="distribution" content="$distribution"&
+gt;<br>);
}
if (param('rating') ne "") {
    $tags .=  qq(&lt;meta name="rating" content="$rating"&gt;<br>);
}
$tags =~ s/</&lt;/;
$tags =~ s/>/&gt;/;
$tags =~ s/<br>//;

print $tags;
print hr;
print end_html();

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