- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:24:23 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
- cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > the following html code puzzles me, because > I am unable to explain the behaviour of the > validation service at w3c. [...] > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> > > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> > <TITLE>Good HTML</TITLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY> > <TABLE width="100%"> > <TR> > <TD> > <FORM method="post" action="/someurl.html"> > > <P> <!-- required for validation --> > > <INPUT type="hidden" name="user" value="hans"> In HTML 4 Strict, FORM can contain only block-level elements (and SCRIPT). So you need to put inline elements such as INPUT in a block-level element like P. > <TABLE> > <TR> > <TD> > xxx > </TD> > </TR> > </TABLE> > > </P> <!-- not allowed for validation --> P can only contain inline elements while TABLE is a block-level element. Since the ending tag for P is optional in HTML, the TABLE start-tag implies the end of the P element. -- Liam Quinn
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