Howdy Monks,

I'm new to CGI scripting, and so I'm wondering if there's an elegant way to include all those other languages in my output. Right now I have stuff that looks like this: 

print "<table cellspacing = 8 border = 1>";

my $count = 1;

print "<tr><td>None of these--what I entered was correct:<p>Company: $
+original_address->{'company'}<br>Name: $original_address->{'addressee
+'}<br>Street: $original_address->{'street'}<br>Street2: $original_add
+ress->{'street2'}<br>Suite: $original_address->{'unitNumber'}<br>City
+: $original_address->{'city'}<br>State: $original_address->{'state'}<
+br>Zipcode: $original_address->{'zipCode'}<br></td><td><input type=\"
+radio\" name=\"addresslist\" value=\"  $count  \"></td><td><p class=\
+"form_submit_action\"><input id=\"order\" value=\"Submit\" type=\"sub
+mit\" /></td></tr>";

etc.

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...and this is just for my proof of concept version. When my company's web designers get involved there's going to be all kinds of javascript/css in place of the above, and I just can't help thinking that this is ugly, hard to read code. However, it doesn't appear that CGI.pm has all the functionality they're going to want for outputting their pretty js/css code. Any best practices to guide me would be very much appreciated!

In reply to CGI and writing html/javascript/css elegantly by rastoboy

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