- From: Sunil Mishra <smishra@cc.gatech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:47:48 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
\\ The idea is that you can use all the tags you mention to "dress up" \\ a form. It is not a strict requirement, but all the tags which belong \\ in forms should appear in the context of a form somewhere. Things like \\ <SUP><TEXTAREA NAME=foo ROWS=1 COLS=1></SUP> are legal, but quite \\ pointless. \\ \\ It's not a parser's job to make sense of HTML. That is up to the \\ renderer. It seems reasonable to me that you can safely ignore form \\ tags which do not appear inside a form. \\ \\ Galactus \\ True, but HTML 2.0 offered a perfectly good way out of this situation without introducing this kind of ambiguity. They added an inclusion to the form element in the DTD. <!ELEMENT FORM - - %body.content -(FORM) +(INPUT|SELECT|TEXTAREA)> Why wasn't the same method followed for HTML 3.2? I mean, was there a reason, or was this just an oversight? Sunil
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