For a non-Perlish answer, have you looked at cascading style sheets? You could define a style for your "errored" boxes and it would automatically be applied. Much less reliance on HTML within your code.

I noticed that you are using a specific error message for first name blank. Something you may want to consider if you can have several errors of this type (first name blank, last name blank, etc.) is to set bits in your error collection routine instead of just a single return code, and then set up a generic routine for your output which checks the correct bit and puts in you-must-enter-this-red if it's flagged.

BTW, why are you setting the font a second time? With your current logic, shouldn't the second <FONT COLOR=FF0000> be </FONT> instead?

Good luck,
=Blue
...you might be eaten by a grue...

In reply to Re: Optional FONT tag by Blue
in thread Optional FONT tag by boo_radley

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