in reply to Background color for a cgi textarea

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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Re: Re: Background color for a cgi textarea
by neniro (Priest) on Mar 26, 2004 at 16:15 UTC
    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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      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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