We really need more info than that ... and yes, there probably is a simple way to do this. But it's not simple if you don't know what you are doing, now is it? Please give us some sample code, and more importantly, some sample data.

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Sure, NP. What I have got so far (I apologize if the indentation doesn't come out right):

<snipp>
...
my $cds = table caption ('CD Collection for user ' . $username),
        Tr (th ([qw(Remove? Artist Album CD_vote ArtistCD_vote)])),
        map { Tr (
                td ([$r_user_collection->{$_}{'cd_artist'}]),
                td ([$r_user_collection->{$_}{'cd_title'}]),
                ),
        } keys %{ $r_user_collection };
    $MAIN_CONTENT .= "<br>" . $cds . "<br>";
...
<schnapp-ety-schnapp>
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To explain, I want to create a table (of some hundreds of rows), with 5 columns (as in the 'th' table caption). The columns need to have the following format: 1. Checkbox 2. Text (static) 3. Text (static) 4. Combobox (values 0-6) 5. Combobox (values 0-6) The idea is to let a user administer his / hers cd-collection, by removing and "rank" the cds. This is just the HTML-part of a larger project, unfortunately I hate HTML with passion, so I've never bothered to learn any, and now I'm suffering the consequences. Oh, and this is a hobby-project btw, not work-related. All I've got left is to fix the web-interface, and register a domain for the "thingy".

I suggest you look at HTML::Template. The philosophy of HTML::Template is that people who are good at HTML should do HTML, and people who are good at Perl should do Perl.

With HTML::Template, you can ask a friend or a proffesional to design the HTML part for you, and then simply fill in the missing values from Perl.

The template would look somewhat like this:

<table>
<tr><th>Remove</th><th>Artist</th>.....</tr>
<TMPL_LOOP name="cd_table">
<tr>
  <td><input type="checkbox" name="delete<TMPL_VAR name="__counter__">
+"</td>
  <td><TMPL_VAR name="artist"></td>
  <td><TMPL_VAR name="album"></td>
  <td><TMPL_VAR type=select name="combo1_<TMPL_VAR name="__counter__">
+">......</td>
..... # you get the idea
</TMPL_LOOP>
</table>
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The Perl code is fairly simple: to set a TMPL_VAR you assign a value to it with $template->param(name=>value). To assign all the values to the rows of a TMPL_LOOP, you assign it a reference to an array of hashes, where each hash represents one row of the table, and the hashes contain the (variable name, variable value) pairs.

Note the __counter__ references above: they are meant to give each checkbox and each combobox a name associated with the row number in which it appears: that is the only way to know which checkbox or combobox the user has selected. Hope this helps...