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CGI::Pretty(3)	       Perl Programmers Reference Guide		CGI::Pretty(3)

NAME
       CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code

SYNOPSIS
	   use CGI::Pretty qw( :html3 );

	   # Print a table with a single data element
	   print table( TR( td( "foo" ) ) );

DESCRIPTION
       CGI::Pretty is a module that derives from CGI.  It's sole function is
       to allow users of CGI to output nicely formatted HTML code.

       When using the CGI module, the following code:
	   print table( TR( td( "foo" ) ) );

       produces the following output:
	   <TABLE><TR><TD>foo</TD></TR></TABLE>

       If a user were to create a table consisting of many rows and many
       columns, the resultant HTML code would be quite difficult to read since
       it has no carriage returns or indentation.

       CGI::Pretty fixes this problem.	What it does is add a carriage return
       and indentation to the HTML code so that one can easily read it.

	   print table( TR( td( "foo" ) ) );

       now produces the following output:
	   <TABLE>
	      <TR>
		 <TD>
		    foo
		 </TD>
	      </TR>
	   </TABLE>

   Tags that won't be formatted
       The <A> and <PRE> tags are not formatted.  If these tags were
       formatted, the user would see the extra indentation on the web browser
       causing the page to look different than what would be expected.	If you
       wish to add more tags to the list of tags that are not to be touched,
       push them onto the @AS_IS array:

	   push @CGI::Pretty::AS_IS,qw(CODE XMP);

   Customizing the Indenting
       If you wish to have your own personal style of indenting, you can
       change the $INDENT variable:

	   $CGI::Pretty::INDENT = "\t\t";

       would cause the indents to be two tabs.

       Similarly, if you wish to have more space between lines, you may change
       the $LINEBREAK variable:

	   $CGI::Pretty::LINEBREAK = "\n\n";

       would create two carriage returns between lines.

       If you decide you want to use the regular CGI indenting, you can easily
       do the following:

	   $CGI::Pretty::INDENT = $CGI::Pretty::LINEBREAK = "";

BUGS
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AUTHOR
       Brian Paulsen <Brian@ThePaulsens.com>, with minor modifications by
       Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org> for incorporation into the CGI.pm
       distribution.

       Copyright 1999, Brian Paulsen.  All rights reserved.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

       Bug reports and comments to Brian@ThePaulsens.com.  You can also write
       to lstein@cshl.org, but this code looks pretty hairy to me and I'm not
       sure I understand it!

SEE ALSO
       CGI

perl v5.10.1			  2009-02-12			CGI::Pretty(3)
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