Re^4: perl cgi standalone checkbox label problem

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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Re^5: perl cgi standalone checkbox label problem by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 06, 2009 at 22:01 UTC
Nice! No, your code works fine for me. Try this: `perl -MCGI -le 'print CGI->VERSION' 3.40` [download] If your CGI version is much behind that, give upgrading a shot.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: perl cgi standalone checkbox label problem by polki (Novice) on Apr 06, 2009 at 22:11 UTC
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... :)	[reply]
Re^5: perl cgi standalone checkbox label problem by ig (Vicar) on Apr 06, 2009 at 22:12 UTC
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.	[reply]