- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:50:06 +0100
- To: Nick Fitzsimons <nick@nickfitz.co.uk>
- 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>
Nick Fitzsimons On 09-11-11 11.52: > 2009/11/10 Leif Halvard Silli: >> 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> Thanks for correcting me. I tested <button> in validator.w3.org first, but I now see that I interpreted the result wrongly. I think, however, that many authors would be quite baffled by a message from the HTML 5 validator telling them to use <button> instead of a link. Many will not know how to do it, since it requires scripting. -- leif halvard silli
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