Re: Is the <form> tag mandatory?

On 27 October 2016 at 16:42, Christophe Strobbe <strobbe@hdm-stuttgart.de>
wrote:

> According to the HTML5 specification, the both the start tag and the end
> tag of the form element are mandatory:
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-form-element>.
>

Hi Christophe, they are not mandatory to use, but if you do have a start
tag <form> you must have an end tag </form>

Ashraf, use of the form element is not a requirement for accessibility. If
the interaction you have designed does not need a form element to function
then that is fine.

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Regards

SteveF
Current Standards Work @W3C
<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>