[thelist] where should form inputs go for valid xhtml?

Aaron Cole aaroncole at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 13:46:25 CDT 2006


Sarah,

I've found that you have to have at least one fieldset element for the
markup to validate.

Aaron

On 8/10/06, Sarah Adams <mrsanders at designshift.com> wrote:
>
> I just ran a form I'm working on through the W3C Markup Validator and
> I'm seeing this error for most of my <input> tags:
>   document type does not allow element "input" here; missing one of "p",
>   "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "div", "pre", "address",
>   "fieldset", "ins", "del" start-tag
>
> I really don't want to add a bunch of useless markup to my form simply
> for the sake of validation - but I want validation! :) I was thinking of
> enclosing the whole thing in an unstyled fieldset, since that would only
> mean adding one extra tag, but it still doesn't feel quite right to add
> a fieldset where I don't actually need one.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>



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