in reply to CGI IMG tag error

Recent versions of CGI.pm default to producing XHTML output. Non-bracketing tags like your <img tag end with />. This is compatible with typical HTML browsers because of the space preceding it.

Use the -no_xhtml pragma to inhibit this:

use CGI '-no_xhtml';

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Re: CGI IMG tag error
by Abigail (Deacon) on Jun 08, 2001 at 23:58 UTC
    <rant>
    I've always strongly disliked (hated?) CGI.pm because of its HTML producing bloat. Now that's doing XHTML nonsense (goddammit, the fact typical browser authors can't parse their way out of a wet paper bag isn't a reason to violate standards - XHTML is not, and will never be, HTML) I've one more reason to burry CGI.pm under several cubic miles of concrete.

    CGI.pm must die.
    </rant>

    -- Abigail

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