in reply to Re^2: perl cgi standalone checkbox label problem
in thread perl cgi standalone checkbox label problem

Er... Then you didn't try it right. 

use CGI;
print CGI::checkbox(-name => 'my_checkbox',
                    -checked => 0,
                    -value => 'on',
                    -label => 'label of my checkbox. Check Me!!!',
                    -labelattributes => { id => 'checkboxlabel_id' }
              );
__END__
<label id="checkboxlabel_id"><input type="checkbox" name="my_checkbox"
+ value="on" />label of my checkbox. Check Me!!!</label>

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Re^4: perl cgi standalone checkbox label problem
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 06, 2009 at 21:50 UTC
    You're joking, right? I mean, this can't be serious that I'm trying the stuff you do and everything works for you but not for me... The complete code within my script: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw/:standard/;

print CGI::header;
print CGI::start_html;
print CGI::checkbox(-name => 'my_checkbox',
                    -checked => 0,
                    -value => 'on',
                    -label => 'label of my checkbox. Check Me!!!',
                    -labelattributes => { id => 'checkboxlabel_id' }
              );
print CGI::end_html;

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    The complete output I get: 
    <!DOCTYPE html
    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+" />
</head>
<body>
<label><input type="checkbox" name="my_checkbox" value="on" labelattri
+butes="HASH(0x825cd28)" />label of my checkbox. Check Me!!!</label>
</body>
</html>

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    Could this be any problem of my machine or whatsoever? I mean, I just copied and pasted your code! Or have I put in any error again?
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      Nice! No, your code works fine for me. Try this: 

      perl -MCGI -le 'print CGI->VERSION'
3.40

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      If your CGI version is much behind that, give upgrading a shot.

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        Thanks man, that did it. Didn't know that the versions changed so rapidly. I just installed CGI through CPAN about one week ago and by running your command I got 3.29 for the version installed. Did an update to the newest version (3.43) and look what happens, it works... Thanks again for your help and patience... :)
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      I too get no label attribute when I run your code, until I update CGI with current version from CPAN, after which the attribute is added.

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