"Just to keep things simple, could we leave templating out of it for the moment?"

To keep things even simpler for the time being, if you take the advice I've already given and create a HTML page which works you'll know exactly what your perl code will have to return to the browser/user. The CGI script doesn't know anything about jQuery or jQuery UI, you simple references them in the HTML you return, which is why it's essential you get this working as a HTML page before considering going further.

Firebug is often helpful when debugging web applications or even HTML/CSS/JavaScript, consider familiarising yourself with it. The Anonymous Monk post also suggests reading Ovids famous tutorial on CGI, this is very good advice IMHO.

In reply to Re^3: cgi scripts running javascript and passing control back and forth by marto
in thread How to allow a user to reorder rows from a database using a web form? by yaconsult

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