I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do with the form params, but you have several errors in either your perl syntax or your html/css syntax (yext-decortation is normally spelled slightly differently;).

When passing css to an html element, the syntax is close but not exactly the same as you've used.

Try:

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI::Pretty qw( -debug );
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );

my $q = new CGI;

my $pay = $q->param(payment=>"discover","master","check");
my $pay_text;

if ( $pay eq "discover" )  {
  $pay_text = "Discover Card";
}
elsif ( $pay eq "discover" )  {
  $pay_text = "Master Card";
}
elsif ( $pay eq "check" )  {
  $pay_text = "by check";
}
else  {
  $pay_text = "unknown method";
}

print $q->header,
      $q->start_html( -title=>"Welcome", -bgcolor=>"pink"),
      $q->p({-style=>'text-decoration:underline;'},"Your name is ",$q-
+>b("name")),
      $q->p("Your age is ", $q->textfield(-name=>"age")),
      $q->p("Your method of payment is ", $q->span({-style=>'color:blu
+e;'},$pay_text)),
      $q->end_html;

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Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk

In reply to Re: Can't produce a web page via CGI by Melly
in thread Can't produce a web page via CGI by zhshqzyc

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