I'm doing some meat& drink type CGI programming. Presenting a user with a table containing fields, like the following : 
...
table({-border=>1},
                th ({-colspan=>2},"<H3>Please verify/ correct the info
+rmation below."),

                Tr (td({-align=>'right'},["First Name"]),td({-align=>'
+left'},[ textfield(-name=>'user_firstname' ,-default=>$userinfo[0])])
+), ....

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and, I'd like the "First Name" bit to show up in red if it's blank. I came up with 
Tr (td({-align=>'right'},[($state==2?"<FONT COLOR=FF0000>":undef)."Fir
+st Name".($state==2?"<FONT COLOR=FF0000>":undef)]),td({-align=>'left'
+},[ textfield(-name=>'user_firstname' ,-default=>$userinfo[0])])),

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where $state is a variable containing an errorlevel from a validation routine. In this case, $state==2 means that the user name was blank. It seems like there could be a multitude of less cumbersome ways to do this -- what's AWTDI?

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