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

I'd like my CGI program to generate a table elegantly, but CGI.pm, HTML::Table, and Data::Table don't seem to make any provision for outputting the <thead> and <tbody> tags.
I.e., if I want to be doing something like this 
print table(
            Tr(\@rows)
          );

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I can't see how to slip the <thead> and <tbody> in there.
Has anyone any experience or tips on this?

andyford
or non-Perl: Andy Ford

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Re: Programmatically generating HTML tables including <thead> and <tbody>
by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Aug 24, 2006 at 00:59 UTC
    Works For Me: 
    use CGI qw(:standard);

my @headers = ( th('a'),th('b'),th('b'), );
my @row    = ( td('1'),td('2'),td('3'), );

print table(
    thead( Tr( @headers ) ),
    tbody( Tr( @row ) ),
);

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    output: 
        <table>
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>    a
                </th>
                <th>    b
                </th>
                <th>    b
                </th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>    1
                </td>
                <td>    2
                </td>
                <td>    3
                </td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>

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    It's not a matter of slipping thead/tbody in, it's a matter of wrapping them around the outside.

    But as everyone else says I'd use templating instead.


    ($_='kkvvttuu bbooppuuiiffss qqffssmm iibbddllffss')
    =~y~b-v~a-z~s; print
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Re: Programmatically generating HTML tables including <thead> and <tbody>
by revdiablo (Prior) on Aug 23, 2006 at 22:28 UTC

    This is one of the many reasons I like to use templates, rather than HTML-generating code routines. The output never quite matches what I want or expect. I'd recommend HTML::Template, but I know a lot of people are partial to Template Toolkit too.

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Re: Programmatically generating HTML tables including <thead> and <tbody>
by imp (Priest) on Aug 23, 2006 at 22:29 UTC
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