Perfect. Not really a Perl thing, but here's what worked:

HTML:
<a href="javascript:help('homehelp');">
<img src="../images/help.gif" alt="home" /></a>

JAVASCRIPT:
function help (tmpl_to_open) {
    window.open("http://foobar.com/instances/help?rm=sh&pg="+tmpl_to_o
+pen,"optional_page_name","scrollbars=1,location=0,directories=0,statu
+s=0,width=550,height=375,toolbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0");
}
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Thanks!


—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

Note, however, that href="javascript:..." is considered harmful.

Hi,
Just do 'alert' the  window.open parameter. And one more thing while setting optional parameters in the window.open function,

 "scrollbars=1,location=0,directories=0,statu
+s=0,width=550,height=375,toolbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0"
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I guess it might be like

 
"scrollbars=1;location=0;directories=0;statu
+s=0;width=550;height=375;toolbar=0;menubar=0;resizable=0"
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Before that, Try with some static pages and make sure that javascript is working fine. Otherwise i'm sure that you may miss some values which is dynamically passing into the  window.open function.
Thanks.
-kulls

Browsers do not know about HTML::Template, and they don't need to. Perl takes an HTML::Template file and some data, puts the two together and sends the data back to the server which passes it on to the client.

It seems that what you need to do is:

1. Decide what you want to display to the user
2. Decide how you want it displayed.
3. Work out how you would write client side code to display data in the way determined in step 2 if Perl and HTML::Template were not involved.
4. Write Perl and templates to output code that presents the data you came up with in step 1 in the format you determined in step 3.

At the moment you seem to be on step (updated) 3, which isn't really anything to do with Perl, so this isn't the best place to be asking.

Ideas?

Perhaps. Am I correct in assuming that you just want the javascript to say 'help.tmpl', instead of 'help.html'? If so, just call help.tmpl like you call any other HTML::Template file.

If the issue is that you simply want to show a chunk of HTML in a smaller font, use CSS before employing any new H::T code, especially if you've not been using H::T up till now. Using CSS will save you tons of grief, in the long run.

Did I hit what you needed? If I'm unclear, please reply, and let me/us know some more details about how you're thinking about implementing this.