I have a working perl program that builds two perl/TK tables with each cell a button. I want to convert the program to a client side HTML webpage with HTML <table> and javascript. I plan to generate the HTML file with perl because I am moderately familiar with it.

My first problem is how to easily generate the HTML equivalent of the TK table with computed callback button attributes. I have looked at HTML::Table, Template Toolkit, HTML::Template, javascript querySelectorAll, and some other online suggestions. On the surface they look promising but very hard to understand at the detail implementation level, i.e., it would take days to figure out how to use them.

Before I waste a lot of time and effort doing it the hard way, what approach would you take?

In reply to Convert TK table to equivalent HTML by jbc66

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