Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Fellow Monks,
Short question this... can I put a background color into my textarea grenerated by cgi.pm. 
new CGI->textarea(-name=>'name',-default=>'default', -rows=>3, -column
+s=>50),

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I can do it in a plain html form like: 
<FORM METHOD=post ACTION="/cgi-bin/example.cgi">
<TEXTAREA wrap="virtual" name="comments" rows=6 cols=20 STYLE="backgro
+und:#EAE8E8">

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Just don't know how to put it into my scripts, any pointers would be much appreciated.

Jonathan.

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Re: Background color for a cgi textarea
by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 26, 2004 at 14:35 UTC

    Erm, why not try the obvious? 

    $ perl -MCGI -le 'print CGI::textarea( -name => "foo", -style => "back
+ground: #eae8e8" );'
<textarea name="foo" style="background: #eae8e8"></textarea>

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[d/l]
      It is always a good idea to separate style from content using css, so I'd prefer this: 
      #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;
print $q->start_html(    -title=>'Your page',
                        -style=>{'src'=>'/css/default.css'}, 
                    );                   
#
# yada yada yada
#
                  
print $q->textarea( -name => "bar", -class => "inked" );
print "\n";

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      of course you need a separate css-file: 
      .inked {
 background: #E0E0F0;
 border-width: 1px;
 border-style: solid;
}

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[d/l]
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        And it's even better to seperate the html completely out of your code, via the use of templates of some sort.
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