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For a start decide if you are going to use the OO interface to CGI or the functional interface. If you are going to use the functional interface you don't need to create a $cgi object.

I don't see anything in your code that aligns dates (numeric) with day (name). You may find it helps to do this in two passes - generate a table (2d array) of weeks populated with the correct dates (and undefs at start and end for "missing" dates), then loop over the weeks to generate the HTML table. The following may help:

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI::Pretty qw(:standard start_table end_table start_Tr end_Tr), (
+-unique_headers);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

print header();
print start_html (-title => "Calendar sample");

my @weekDays = qw(Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Satu
+rday);
my $today = 11;
my @weeks = (
          [undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, 27],
          [28, 29, 30, 31,  1,  2,  3],
          [ 4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9, 10],
          [11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17],
          [18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24],
          [25, 26, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef]
     );

print start_table();
print Tr ({-align=>'CENTER',-valign=>'TOP'}, td (\@weekDays));
for my $week (@weeks) {
     print start_Tr({-align=>'CENTER',-valign=>'TOP'});
     
     for my $date (@$week) {
          if (! defined $date) {
               print td ('');
          } elsif ($date == $today) {  
               print td(strong($date));  
          } else {
               print td ($date);
          }
     }
     
     print end_Tr();
}      

print end_html ();
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Generates:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S"><head><title>Spawn Results</title>
</head><body>
<table>
<tr align="CENTER" valign="TOP">
    <td>Sunday</td>
    <td>Monday</td>
    <td>Tuesday</td>
    <td>Wednesday</td>
    <td>Thursday</td>
    <td>Friday</td>
    <td>Saturday</td>
</tr>
<tr align="CENTER" valign="TOP">
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>27</td>
</tr>
<tr align="CENTER" valign="TOP">
<td>28</td>
<td>29</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr align="CENTER" valign="TOP">
<td>4</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>9</td>
<td>10</td>
</tr>
<tr align="CENTER" valign="TOP">
<td><strong>
    11
</strong></td>
<td>12</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>14</td>
<td>15</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>17</td>
</tr>
<tr align="CENTER" valign="TOP">
<td>18</td>
<td>19</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>24</td>
</tr>
<tr align="CENTER" valign="TOP">
<td>25</td>
<td>26</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body></html>
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Update: clean up table layout

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: cgi calander by GrandFather
in thread cgi calander by mikejones

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Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
						27
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