in reply to how to format perl/cgi output in web page

This is a bit hard to follow:

The output shown does not match the output of your script: Among others:

Line 4, if($parval eq "stat1_val"){, is always true... so why are you using the conditional?

The .html is not valid. All the occurances of <li>...</li> should be inside an <ol>...</ol> or <ul>...</ul>

The occurances of <div id=$ss1 name=file></div> are invalid when between </li> and the next <li>.

You've given us no clues about the content of the javascript and left us guessing about the content of readfile.pl

Please clarify.