- From: Nick Fitzsimons <nick@nickfitz.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:52:05 +0000
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Lars Gunther <gunther@keryx.se>, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
2009/11/10 Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>: > > I would think that the reason that you shouldn't use a button is because it > isn't a button because it isn't inside a form. > > Well, it is still a button - even outside a <form>, but a button outside the > form element - what use is that? Why doesn't HTML 5 say that it is invalid, > like HTML 4 does? HTML 4.01 doesn't say that a button outside a form is invalid. In section 17.2.1 [1] it explicitly states: "The elements used to create controls generally appear inside a FORM element, but may also appear outside of a FORM element declaration when they are used to build user interfaces." [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.2.1> Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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