Hello wise ones,

I'm having some trouble with CGI's checkbox_group function and more specifically the ability to assign attributes to the <label> tag using "-labelattributes"

Using this code for a single checkbox assigns the label with the css class as requested:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

my $cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header;
print $cgi->start_html;

print $cgi->checkbox(-name => 'my_checkbox',
 -value => 'eenie',
 -label => 'first choice',
 -labelattributes => { class => 'somecssclass' }
 );
print $cgi->end_html;
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When taking this to a checkbox_group, all labels appear with the same class:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

my $cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header;
print $cgi->start_html;

my %labels = (
 'eenie'=>'first choice',
 'meenie'=>'second choice',
 'minie'=>'third choice');

print $cgi->checkbox_group(-name => 'my_checkbox',
 -values => ['eenie','meenie','minie'],
 -labels => \%labels,
 -labelattributes => { class => 'somecssclass' }
 );
print $cgi->end_html;
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What I want to do is similar to the way "-attributes" works, so as to be able to control *which* labels I assign attributes to. Something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

my $cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header;
print $cgi->start_html;

my %labels = ('eenie'=>'first choice',
 'meenie'=>'second choice',
 'minie'=>'third choice');
my %labelattr = ('eenie'=> { 'class' => 'somecssclass' } );
my %attr = ('eenie'=> { 'class' => 'someothercssclass' } );

print $cgi->checkbox_group(-name => 'my_checkbox',
 -values => ['eenie','meenie','minie'],
 -labels => \%labels,
 -attributes => \%attr,
 -labelattributes => \%labelattr
 );
print $cgi->end_html;
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However when I do this I get the following, which given the previous code I kind of expected but don't really want! Note that the <input> tag for the value 'eenie' gets assigned the right class but ALL labels get assigned some unwanted eenie=hashref garbage!

<label eenie="HASH(0x13e95e8)"><input type="checkbox" name="my_checkbo
+x" value="eenie"  class="someothercssclass"/>first choice</label><lab
+el eenie="HASH(0x13e95e8)"><input type="checkbox" name="my_checkbox" 
+value="meenie" />second choice</label><label eenie="HASH(0x13e95e8)">
+<input type="checkbox" name="my_checkbox" value="minie" />third choic
+e</label>
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Is there any way to specifically assign attributes to specific labels using cgi and checkbox_group?

Many many thanks for your help.

Rich