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

I've been mucking around with CGI.pm recently and I keep having strange problems. The first was that CGI::Pretty ended up generating html that was impossible to distinguish from that generated by the standard CGI module. Is there something beyond "use CGI::Pretty" required to get this module to do anything?

Currently I'm looking at the start_table. This works but doesn't seem to recognize attributes (such as -align=>'center', -border=>0, -cellpadding=>8) recognized by the  <table> tag. I went ahead and upgraded to the latest CGI.pm - still no luck. Should just look like  start_table(-align=>'center', -border=>0, -cellpadding=>8) right? Am I missing something obvious? Many thanks.

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Re: CGI irregularities
by rev_1318 (Chaplain) on Mar 09, 2005 at 10:30 UTC
    start_table takes it's attributes as a hash-ref, so try
    start_table({-align=>'center', -border=>0, -cellpadding=>8})
    That should work

    Paul

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Re: CGI irregularities
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Mar 09, 2005 at 07:22 UTC 
    C:\>perl -MCGI -e"die CGI->start_table({1..10})"
<table 1="2" 3="4" 7="8" 9="10" 5="6"> at -e line 1.

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Re: CGI irregularities
by chas (Priest) on Mar 09, 2005 at 06:39 UTC
    I thought start_table() just produced a <table> tag. The various attributes go in table() rather than start_table() (unless things have changed in recent versions.)
    chas
    (Update: I guess I was mistaken; the attributes can also be put in start_table(); I just never did that. But as has already been noted, they have to be in a hashref.)
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