Cgi and Perl : how to create whitespaces between text and drop down fields?

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

Hi Monks, I wanted to create a spacing between the text and the drop down menus. I tried puting " " in my text but it seems it does nothing for my output. Any ideas? I ended up programing in pure HTML by create one table with two columns, text in one column and field in the other column.

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Re: Cgi and Perl : how to create whitespaces between text and drop down fields? by Joost (Canon) on Dec 22, 2004 at 22:45 UTC
" " should put a space between the two elements, but in html whitespaces are collapsed - using more than one space is equivalent to only using one (and space, tab, newline etc are all treated as whitespace). Depending on your situation you can use ` ` elements, which aren't collapsed, or use a table (as you have), or use stylesheets/css to markup an explicit margin. This isn't really a question about perl, though. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Cgi and Perl : how to create whitespaces between text and drop down fields? by davido (Cardinal) on Dec 22, 2004 at 22:42 UTC
Whatever you ended up doing in pure HTML, you can also do by letting your Perl-driven CGI script output the same HTML. If you got the desired results by creating one table with two columns, then have your CGI script output one table with two columns. Dave	[reply]