Well... your (CGI|Perl) script will have to output HTML or something the client will understand anyway. Most simple Perl web scripts I see do something like: 
print STDOUT >>EOT;
<table>
<tr>
    <td>FIRST BUTTON</td>
    <td>SECOND BUTTON</td>
    <td>THIRD BUTTON</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>I AM ON THE SECOND ROW</td>
    <td>YOU ARE LISTENING TO ME TYPE</td>
    <td>MY NAME IS MORT</td>
</tr>
</table>
EOT

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So really, it's a matter of doing both. (Note that CGI.pm provides a bevy of methods for generating HTML for you. There are also nice things like Text::Template and HTML::Mason. In a simple case, there's nothing wrong with using a here doc and embedding your HTML in the script. Just don't use a page full of print statements.)

In reply to Re: Formatting CGI by chromatic
in thread Formatting CGI by brysonic venture

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