It's not entirely clear what you're asking, but I think you want to make a single AJAX call to the Perl back end, then use the (single) response to populate multiple divs on the displayed page. Is that correct?

If so, this is covered by the second usage example in the CGI::Ajax documentation. Just return a list of multiple values from the Perl handler sub (return 'first', 'second';), specify a list of divs on the HTML side (onclick="processFormInputs(['next_verse'],['first_div', 'second_div'], 'POST');), and you should be set.

If you need something more specialized than that, the third usage example shows the syntax to tell CGI::Ajax to pass the returned value(s) off to an arbitrary javascript function, where you can fold, spindle, and mutilate the data to your heart's content, then assign the pieces to whatever divs you like, including a basic example of a javascript function which might be used to do this.

(Note that it's been several years since I last used CGI::Ajax, so I could be misremembering some of the details, but the documentation matches up with what I think I remember, so it's probably at least close to correct.)

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