Dear Monks I am having a unique problem creating a table using cgi.pm

Below is the part of the code that creates the table:- I create several columns in the table and my requirement is that a javascript should be triggered when I click on any column except the first one. 

$cgi->Tr({ -align=>LEFT, -valign=>TOP}, 
    [
     td( { -OnClick=>"javascript:dothis()" }, 
        [ $cgi->a( {-href=>"..", -target=>"_new"}, $cgi->img(..)),
                $cgi->a( {..}, $value1 ),
          $cgi->hidden( -name=>'name2', -value=>'$value2' ).
                    $cgi->a( $value2),
          $cgi->hidden( -name=>'name3', -value=>'$value3' ).
                    $cgi->a( $value2)
        ]),
    ]);


which creates the html code as follows:-

<tr valign="TOP" align="LEFT">
<td onclick="javascript:dothis()">
   <a target="_new" href=".."><img src=.../></a></td>
<td onclick="javascript:dothis()">
   <a>VARIABLE</a></td> 
<td onclick="javascript:dothis()">
   <input type="hidden" name=".."value=".."/><a>..</a></td> 
<td onclick="javascript:dothis()">
   <input type="hidden" name=".."value=".."/><a>..</a></td> 
</tr>

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Everything is fine except that I don't need "javascript:dothis()" in the first column. I am not able to get rid of that in the first column bcoz the format , td( { -OnClick=>"javascript:dothis()" }, ensures that the javascript is added to each and every column in the table row

Is there a way to overcome this problem or I should create the html tags manually rather than using cgi.pm? I would appreciate any help in this regard.

In reply to Creating a table using cgi.pm - a unique problem by sara2005

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