- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:44:47 +0200
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:41:37 +0200, Old?ich Vete?n?k <vetesnik at mrmil.cz> wrote: > I'd like to throw a question out here, please don't shoot me if it's > been already answered, I'm a full-time coder and don't have an internet > at home so I can't make any deep researches in your archives. > > Q: Is it possible that hidden inputs don't have to be in a semantic tag? > That is it passes the validation test without showing this error up: > line 20 column 32 - Error: document type does not allow element "input" > here; missing one of "p", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "div", > "pre", "address", "fieldset", "ins", "del" start-tag > > It's because hidden inputs aren't meant to be shown to the front-end > user so it doesn't mean if it's not covered in a semantic tag. Sometimes > it's O.K., you have a form with a few fieldsets so you can put it in > one, but sometimes it's rather stupid having to do <div><input > type="hidden" name="somename" value="somevalue" /></div> just to silence > the validator. You can test this with http://validator.nu/ which already validates HTML5. You can basically insert <input type=hidden> (and other <input> types) virtually anywhere except directly inside <table>, <ol> and elements with similar special models. Does that help? -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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