I took your advice and re-thought the way I was using CSS on my forms. I guess I needed a kick in the butt to do it right (something I know from the textbooks, but was falling short in my actual implementation).

Today I re-wrote my HTML::FormFu, and added some surrounding Blocks (tag: div) around my elements, corrected my CSS to target the selectors more precisely, and I now have the kind of form I wanted, where the long text inputs (Name and Address) are stacked vertically, and the shorter fields (City-State-Zip) are on one line (horizontally).

In every case, I have my label sitting on top, aligned to the left edge of the Input box. Neat!

Thanks again, Monks. You do a great service to the Perl community here.

In reply to Re^2: HTML::FormFu element attributes by neptuneray
in thread HTML::FormFu element attributes by Anonymous Monk

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