Yeah I know - it's asked and answered 100's of times. But I'm not happy with proposed solutions.

I know about HTML::FillInForm and other modules with similar functionality. But I haven't found any that would beside selecting right option in a <select> also dynamically make those.

To make it more clear. Inside my template (HTML::Template) 

<select name="whatever">
Insert possible options here
and of course select the right one
</select>

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I know about solution with CGI.pm that would generate the whole thing together with select but I use CGI::Simple - and I want to leave it possible for designer (or whoever) to say set class (CSS) for the particular select - or maybe add onChange JS event handler ...

Another solution would be : 

<select name="whatever">
<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="whatever_select" -->
</select>

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But then I end up with HTML generating code - which means I have html code inside my Perl code ... 
<select name="whatever">
<!-- TMPL_LOOP NAME="whatever_select" -->
<option value="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="id" -->" <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="checke
+d" -->><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="value" --></option>
<!-- /TMPL_LOOP -->
</select>

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Also looks kinda funky :) And it also requires work inside my code.

I was thinking of simply passing array(ref) of possible values that would be used for filling options. And then HTML::FillInForm would easily select right option. Any module that does that? If not, I might try to write it myself - but I'm not that good with parsing ...

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In reply to Populating options in html select. by techcode

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