Re: Perl and CSS

At 9:36 PM +1000 5/24/00, Rob Eager wrote:

>Here's the question.
>
>I know that perl has some support for css but I'm not sure what is
>needed to make it work.  I've tried putting it in as a normal perl
>print statement wherever the script generates a html header but
>that's not working.  Could someone please explain what mods are
>needed and if it is really worth it (after all it's only the one page
>that isn't using the css).

Here's the relevant source for a perl CGI that uses CSS's:

#   include the CGI module
use CGI qw/:standard :html3 *table/;

#   specify the header (pre-HTML) info
print header(
     -expires=>'-1d',
     -pragma=>'no-cache'
     ),

     #	specify the HTML HEAD tags
     start_html(
         -title=>'Causal Effects',
         -author=>'"Mike Schienle" mgs(at)ivsoftware.com',
         #   specify the style sheet
         -style=>{
             -src=>'/styles/causal.css'
         }
);

Here are a couple lines from the causal.css file:
BODY {background-color: #cccccc}
TH {background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc}

For much more info, check out "Official Guide to Programming with 
CGI.pm", by Lincoln Stein (also the creator of CGI.pm source code). 
<http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0471247448>
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Mike Schienle                                 Interactive Visuals, Inc.
mgs(at)ivsoftware.com                  Remote Sensing and Image Processing
http://www.ivsoftware.com/         Analysis and Application Development

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