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Working code

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI;
use HTML::Entities qw(encode_entities);

print "content-type: text/html \n\n";

my @options = qw(text color background_color);
my @family = qw(serif sans-serif cursive fantasy monospace);
my @size = qw(xx-small x-small small medium large x-large xx-large);
my @weight = qw(normal bold 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900);
my @variant = qw(normal small-caps);
my @style = qw(normal italic oblique);

my $cgi = CGI->new();
my $text = encode_entities($cgi->param('text')) || "The quick brown fo
+x jumps over the lazy dog.";
my $color = encode_entities($cgi->param('color')) || "#000";
my $background_color = encode_entities($cgi->param('background_color')
+) || "transparent";

print <<"sec1";
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/T
+R/html4/strict.dtd">
<html><head><title>Font and Color Tests</title>
<style type="text/css">
h1 {font-size:14pt;}
h2 {font-size:12pt;}
p {border:1px #333 solid;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Font and Color Tests</h1>
<form action="$ENV{REQUEST_URI}" method="get">
sec1

for my $option (@options) {
  my $display_option = ucfirst $option;
     $display_option =~ tr/_/ /;
  print qq{<div>\n<label for="$option">$display_option: </label>\n<inp
+ut type="text" id="$option" name="$option">\n</div>};
}

print <<"sec2";
<div>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
<a href="font.pl">Start over</a>
</div>
</form>
sec2

for my $style (@style) {
  for my $variant (@variant) {
    for my $weight (@weight) {
      for my $size (@size) {
        for my $family (@family) {
          print qq{<h2>style: $style; variant: $variant; weight: $weig
+ht; size: $size; family: $family; color: $color; background-color: $b
+ackground_color;</h2>\n};
          print qq{<p style="font:$style $variant $weight $size $famil
+y;color:$color;background-color:$background_color;">$text</p>\n};
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

print "</body></html>";

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Lady Aleena

In reply to Re^4: Reload a script with a new value for input when submit is clicked on an html form by Lady_Aleena
in thread Reload a script with a new value for input when submit is clicked on an html form by Lady_Aleena

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