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

[Rickards, Julian (NDM)]

<input> tags are inline tags that must be contained within a block tag.
For example, if you have a form with a field for First Name and a field
for Last Name to appear on separate lines, such as

<label for="first_name">First Name:</label> <input type="text"
id="first_name" name="firstname" />
<label for="last_name">Last Name:</label> <input type="text"
id="last_name" name="lastname" />

...you must enclose them in either <p> or <div> tags as in

<p><label for="first_name">First Name:</label> <input type="text"
id="first_name" name="firstname" /></p>
<p><label for="last_name">Last Name:</label> <input type="text"
id="last_name" name="lastname" /></p>

HTH,

Jules

-----Original Message-----

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?