Use Perl to generate your skeleton? Nonesense. All i do is create a "skeleton" that describes the layout. I usually start by lifting a layout from Box Lessons. Then i either use HTML::Template or Template. Here is a quick skeleton that i used recently with Template-Toolkit: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http:/
+/www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/default.css" type="text/css" />
<title>[% title %]</title>
</head>
<body>

<div id="top">
<h1>[% title %]</h1>
</div>

<div id="left">
[% PROCESS widget/menu.html %]
</div>

<div id="middle">
[% content -%]
</div>

<div id="right">
[% PROCESS widget/calendar.html %]
</div>

<div id="bottom">
[% PROCESS widget/footer.html %]
</div>

</body>
</html>

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As you can see, the CSS file is completely seperate and not generated by Perl! Instead, Perl is used to load this template and substitute, etc. This is, IMHO, a much better solution as it allows me to hand my HTML to someone who designs and doesn't code.

So, in conclusion, my experience has been that the more flexible and useful applications of Perl and CSS are to simply template the skeleton and let Perl worry about the data, not the presentation. Otherwise you might as well be using Tk.

jeffa

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(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to Re: CSS and perl by jeffa
in thread CSS and perl by bakunin

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