Re^3: Formatting labels of checkbox groups

Sorry, I thought the crux of the matter was doing complex, dynamic labelling that was inconvenient with checkbox_group.

Like the first respondent said, you could use ' ' x 4 instead of 4 spaces. If what you really want is columns, use HTML tables or CSS.

Or use -label => '' and put in your own label after the checkbox by hand with CGI::pre("$title $description $moretext")

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Re^4: Formatting labels of checkbox groups by lcanty (Friar) on Aug 16, 2004 at 07:09 UTC
Hey again Zed, well actually the problem started with dynamic labelling of anywhere between 10 - 2000 checkboxes, which obviously meant creating the one checkbox_group. Unfortunately though im building a web-based interface to some webmin modules. (Webmin is a web base interface to Unix/Linux written in perl) http://www.webmin.com/intro.html because of this CSS is out of the question. Currently the checkbox structure is already in it's own table with columns, but that's where i keep running into blocks. i also require the checkbox labels to also be in columns. I was hoping to also achieve this without having to create the possible 2000 boxes individually on the fly. i've already tried ` ` but that didnt work, instead all it does is interpret the `&nbsp` and print it with part of the label. I've also tried `CGI::pre("$title $description $moretext")` [download] but that seems to embed the `<PRE>`tags into the actual desription rather than interpreting them as the html that they're meant to be.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Formatting labels of checkbox groups by Zed_Lopez (Chaplain) on Aug 16, 2004 at 07:21 UTC
I'm not suggesting putting ` ` or `CGI::pre` within a `-label` parameter. I was suggesting outputting them after the checkbox call (and you would have to call checkbox individually for each desired checkbox.) If you want to use checkbox_group, you'll need your own, like tye suggested. You could modify your CGI.pm (which will probably bite you in the long run), create a new package that subclasses it, or copy CGI's checkbox_group code into your own stuff and modify it there.	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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