Seconding and possibly expanding a bit on Grandfather's note, above, you clearly need to get a basic understanding of the relationship between Perl and CGIs (which may or may not be written in Perl).

May I recommend the slightly-dated but still-sound "Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm" or, as a second choice, "CGI Programming with Perl".

May I also suggest you acquire a better understanding of HTML standards (and perhaps CSS), as the .html above is shot full of outdated or flatly "wrong" code. CF the double quote after the closing single quote in <BODY BGCOLOR='white'"... and the lack of quoting for the values of TEXT, LINK etcetera. There's no shortage of good instruction available on the web or on paper, some of the best of which can be found at w3schools.

In reply to Re^3: Question about HTML and Perl by ww
in thread Question about HTML and Perl by CG_man

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