Put a link element in the header of your template file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<html>
<head>
    <title><TMPL_VAR NAME=TITLE></title>
    <base target="_self">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="External.css">
</head>
<body>
    ....
</body>

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You could go a step further and dynamically change your stylesheet by using a template variable for the sytlesheet filename.

For even more flexibility, use template toolkit instead of HTML::template. This would give you the ability to put variables in a stylesheet file, which would be processed before rendering to the browser:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<html>
<head>
    <title>$Page.title</title>
    <base target="_self"/>
    <style type="text/css">
        <!-- @import 'path/to/css/main.css'; 
             [% PROCESS "path/to/css/theme.css" %] 
             body { font-size: ${font_size}pt; }
             p { font-size: ${font_size}pt; }
        -->
    </style>
</head>
<body>
 ....
</body>
</html>

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In the above example, the main stylesheet is imported, a stylesheet with variables (theme.css) is included, and then additional styles are explicitly added to override those in the first two stylesheets.

A drawback with this method is that the styles from theme.css show up when a user looks at the page source, because those styles get embedded in the html document.

Anne

In reply to Re: Html Template CSS and CGI PERL by Anneq
in thread Html Template CSS and CGI PERL by ana711

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