" " should put a space between the two elements, but in html whitespaces are collapsed - using more than one space is equivalent to only using one (and space, tab, newline etc are all treated as whitespace). Depending on your situation you can use   elements, which aren't collapsed, or use a table (as you have), or use stylesheets/css to markup an explicit margin. This isn't really a question about perl, though.

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In reply to Re: Cgi and Perl : how to create whitespaces between text and drop down fields? by Joost
in thread Cgi and Perl : how to create whitespaces between text and drop down fields? by EchoAngel

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