RE: Tidy becomes less forgiving

I was asking for comments in earnest and have been convinced (see my
previous posting) that <form> begin and end tags should not cross table
cells - especially since you can force output.

That said, I believe de facto standards carry every bit as much weight as
unimplemented "recommendations".  I believe this is the spirit of both W3C
and IETF standardization efforts.  And, the fact is, all browsers do support
the construction Allan is using.  Are THEAD, TBODY, etc. portable across
browsers?

I just think it is really important to keep development grounded in what
HTML coders use today.

take it easy,
Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: Bjoern Hoehrmann [mailto:derhoermi@gmx.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 7:42 PM
To: Allan Clark
Cc: Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com; Html-tidy@w3.org
Subject: Re: Tidy becomes less forgiving


* Allan Clark wrote:
>In past, I've made each row of a table into a form
>(<tr><form...>...</form></tr>) but this is illegal?

Yes.

>What is the alternative,

Either

  <table>
  <tr><td><form>...</form></td></tr>
  ...

or

  <form>
  <table>
  <tr><td><input ...</td>
  ...

If this causes presentation effects your former approach doesn't, use CSS to
change the presentation to your needs.

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