comment on

the form-name is only used for the name of the form, not as an prefix for the name of the fields inside the form

I see, a misunderstanding. Documentation shows

        <tr id="${form}_${field}_row">
            <td id="${form}_${field}_label">Label</td>
            <td id="${form}_${field}_input"><input tag></td>
            <td id="${form}_${field}_error">Error</td><!-- if invalid 
+-->
        </tr>
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And that matches my experience (s/_input/_field/), this code

#!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI::FormBuilder;

my $form = CGI::FormBuilder->new( name     => 'acctinfo');
$form->field(name => 'fname', label => 'First Name');
$form->field(name => 'lname', label => 'Last Name');

print $form->render(header => 1);
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produces this html

<?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> </title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<h3> </h3>

<!-- Generated by CGI::FormBuilder v3.0501 available from www.formbuil
+der.org -->
<form action="-" id="acctinfo" method="get" name="acctinfo">
<div id="acctinfo_state"><input id="_submitted_acctinfo" name="_submit
+ted_acctinfo" type="hidden" value="1" /></div>
<table id="acctinfo_body">
<tr id="acctinfo_fname_row" valign="top">
  <td id="acctinfo_fname_label">First Name</td>
  <td id="acctinfo_fname_field"><input id="fname" name="fname" type="t
+ext" /></td>
</tr>
<tr id="acctinfo_lname_row" valign="top">
  <td id="acctinfo_lname_label">Last Name</td>
  <td id="acctinfo_lname_field"><input id="lname" name="lname" type="t
+ext" /></td>
</tr>
<tr id="acctinfo_submit_row" valign="top">
  <td align="center" colspan="2" id="acctinfo_submit_field"><input id=
+"acctinfo_submit" name="_submit" type="submit" value="Submit" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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It seems you want

#!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI::FormBuilder;

my $form = CGI::FormBuilder->new( name     => 'acctinfo');
$form->field(name => 'acctinfo_fname', label => 'First Name');
$form->field(name => 'acctinfo_lname', label => 'Last Name');

print $form->render(header => 1);
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In reply to Re^3: Formbuilder: generate id, that includes formname by Anonymous Monk
in thread Formbuilder: generate id, that includes formname by Wolfgang

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