- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:08:08 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Can anyone tell me why form elements have to be enclosed in a <p></p> to > validate as html 4.01 strict? I know that it's like that in the html spec > but why? Why can't we just have all the elements in the > <form></form> tags? > At first I thought it was probably a block/inline thing but I'm > not so sure > now. It is indeed. Form can only directly contain a block element, hence you need to have a block element that can contain inline (<p>, <div>, <td> etc.) in the form and the <input /> or whatever inside that. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd for details.
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