CGI table column widths

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

with the CGI module, is it possible to set the column widths in a table??

i tried:

print table(
          col({-width=>250px}),
          col({-width=>150px}),
          Tr([
              td(['first column','second column'])
              ])
           );
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which gave me the error: "syntax error at tableedit.pl line 147, near "250px""

obviously, i can pull out the table starting tag, and just print the column width specifications in regular html, but if there's a way to do it with CGI, i'd love to use it.

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Re: CGI table column widths by jck (Scribe) on Dec 25, 2009 at 03:27 UTC
oops - just after posting this, i came up with the answer!! i needed to put quotes around the 250px this works: `print table( col({-width=>'250px'}), col({-width=>'150px'}), Tr([ td(['first column','second column']) ]) );` [download]	[reply] [d/l]