Hi Monks,

I use CGI.pm to create submit buttons but I am wondering if there is a way to set a standard size for the buttons, irrespective of the text.

For example, the below code works fine and creates the buttons, but of different sizes. 

...
..
print $query->table( {-border=>0, -cellpadding=>2, -cellspacing=>0 },
          $query->Tr( [
            $query->td( [ 
               $query->submit( -name=>'name1', -value=>'Help'),
                "   ".
               $query->submit( -name=>'name2', -value=>'Perform Action
+', -onclick=>"submitform('action')" ),
                "   ".
               $query->submit( -name=>'name3', -value=>'Outputs', -onc
+lick=>"submitform('output')" ) 
            ]),
        ])
     );
...
...
...

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I can overcome the problem by 'manually', introducing spaces 'in front' and 'after' the text like 

...
..
$query->submit( ....,  -value=>'   Help   ', .... )
...
$query->submit( ....., -value=>'  Outputs  ', ....
...

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but the issue is, these buttons have to be generated dynamically based on what I read in the previous script. So, it can be a minimum of 2 to maximum of 'N' buttons and hence, it would be nice to define a standard size for the button.

Is there a way to achieve this? Please help.

In reply to CGI: How to set a standard size for a SUBMIT button by Anonymous Monk

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