Your earlier threads that might help:

• help with start_table of CGI.pm
• How to do tables

The problem you're having is probably that the CGI Tr method is capitalized to avoid conflict with the tr operator.

Most CGI.pm tutorials I've seen are just HTML-ized versions of the PERL doc inside of CGI.pm itself, which is of no help in this area.

Actually you're wrong there. The CGI.pm has a section called Non-Standard HTML Shortcuts, which says:

Because of conflicts with built-in Perl functions, the following functions begin with initial caps:

Select
Tr
Link
Delete
Accept
Sub

It's looks to me as though this specifically addresses the problem that you're having.

Alternately, you can use the Nodes You Wrote link in the sidebar (usually, left) and when that page opens, enter your login name in the "author" box to obtain the same information.

Yes, I found my prior write ups on my home page like you said, thank you

Yes, I found my prior write ups on my home page like you said, thank you

Also, unless you have disabled it, you will find on the right of the a "Find Nodes" nodelette with a direct link to Nodes You Wrote.

Basically, any html element can be created with its name as the function name (but for the differences noted by davorg) where attributes are passed in a hash reference, and contents are passed in a list or array:

print comment('this creates one big blockquote');
print blockquote(
  {-cite => 'http://www.example.com/biblio'},
  'The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog.',
  br(),
  strong('See citation for details')
);
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print comment('this creates two smaller blockquotes');
print blockquote(
  {-cite => 'http://www.example.com/biblio'},
  [
    'The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog.',
    strong('See citation for details')
  ]
);
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<!-- this creates one big blockquote -->
<blockquote cite="http://www.example.com/biblio">
  The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog.
  <br />
  <strong>
    See citation for details
  </strong>
</blockquote>

<!-- this creates two smaller blockquotes -->
<blockquote cite="http://www.example.com/biblio">
  The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog.
</blockquote>
<blockquote cite="http://www.example.com/biblio">
  <strong>
    See citation for details
  </strong>
</blockquote>
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As far as a CGI tutorial, I can't help since I prefer the use of templates to the CGI html functions.

Changing it to Tr from tr definitely helped, now the first row is not printing at all, but the rest (which I did not show you the code for) does print, but without the first row, it prints in a rather messy fashion - the column cells do not have the right size.

Again,what I am trying to do is give Tr a reference to a hash which has all of the first row cells in it. Can I do that?

Without seeing the code it's hard to know what the problem is. We could guess, but that would almost certainly be a waste of both your time and ours.

Again,what I am trying to do is give Tr a reference to a hash which has all of the first row cells in it. Can I do that?

You seem to be changing your story. Previously you have been telling us that you are trying to pass Tr an array. Now you say it's a hash. Which is it?

A table row doesn't contain data directly. They are supposed to be in td or th elements. Given an array that contains the data for a table row, you need code like this (again, assuming the function-oriented interface to CGI.pm as, in my opinion, it's far easier to use):

print Tr(td(\@array));
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you might have forgotten the "tbody" tag

Tables don't need to have a <tbody> element. And in my experience they are really rather rare.

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"The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg