Why use JavaScript? This works perfectly well for me: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -T

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print header, start_html;
print ("Submitted:", param(), hr) if param();
print start_form, 
    submit('button1'), submit('button2'),
    end_form, end_html
;

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Note a couple style issues: don't mix 'hand coded' HTML with CGI.pm HTML generating methods and don't mix the OO style with the procedural style.

If this still doesn't do what you want, you will need to elaborate a bit more (and, yes i read Re: Re: Re: Re: <input type="button"> does not generate parameter=>value pair and i still don't know what you really want).

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: <input type="button"> does not generate parameter=>value pair by jeffa
in thread <input type="button"> does not generate parameter=>value pair by dda

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