Re^2: Formatting labels of checkbox groups

Hey Zed,

I've tried to generate the checkboxes one at a time like in your second example.

CGI::checkbox(-name => 'the_group', -value => $value, -label =>'')
[download]

Now what i require is something similar to...

$some_spaces = "    " #here are 4 spaces.
$my_label = $title . $some_spaces . $description . $somespaces . $more
+text 
# the variables above just represent some basic information
CGI::checkbox(-name => 'the_group', -value => $value, -label =>$my_lab
+el)
[download]

now what i'd expect from the web page is a checkbox with a label that has each part split by 4 spaces.
Unfortunately the html is being smart and removing unnecessary white space, so what i end up with is each variable only being seperated by a single space, ideally what im looking for is a way to get around this.
any more ideas would be appreciated

thanks

Comment on Re^2: Formatting labels of checkbox groups Select or Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^3: Formatting labels of checkbox groups by Zed_Lopez (Chaplain) on Aug 16, 2004 at 06:31 UTC
Sorry, I thought the crux of the matter was doing complex, dynamic labelling that was inconvenient with checkbox_group. Like the first respondent said, you could use `' ' x 4` instead of 4 spaces. If what you really want is columns, use HTML tables or CSS. Or use `-label => ''` and put in your own label after the checkbox by hand with `CGI::pre("$title $description $moretext")`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Formatting labels of checkbox groups by lcanty (Friar) on Aug 16, 2004 at 07:09 UTC
Hey again Zed, well actually the problem started with dynamic labelling of anywhere between 10 - 2000 checkboxes, which obviously meant creating the one checkbox_group. Unfortunately though im building a web-based interface to some webmin modules. (Webmin is a web base interface to Unix/Linux written in perl) http://www.webmin.com/intro.html because of this CSS is out of the question. Currently the checkbox structure is already in it's own table with columns, but that's where i keep running into blocks. i also require the checkbox labels to also be in columns. I was hoping to also achieve this without having to create the possible 2000 boxes individually on the fly. i've already tried ` ` but that didnt work, instead all it does is interpret the `&nbsp` and print it with part of the label. I've also tried `CGI::pre("$title $description $moretext")` [download] but that seems to embed the `<PRE>`tags into the actual desription rather than interpreting them as the html that they're meant to be.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Formatting labels of checkbox groups by Zed_Lopez (Chaplain) on Aug 16, 2004 at 07:21 UTC
I'm not suggesting putting ` ` or `CGI::pre` within a `-label` parameter. I was suggesting outputting them after the checkbox call (and you would have to call checkbox individually for each desired checkbox.) If you want to use checkbox_group, you'll need your own, like tye suggested. You could modify your CGI.pm (which will probably bite you in the long run), create a new package that subclasses it, or copy CGI's checkbox_group code into your own stuff and modify it there.	[reply] [d/l] [select]