- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:04:28 +0100
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
- Cc: "'cnc99r@ecs.soton.ac.uk'" <cnc99r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> From: Cheun N Chong [SMTP:cnc99r@ecs.soton.ac.uk] > > I have the following HTML codes: > [DJW:] The example is not syntactically HTML, form has mandatory attributes which haven't been supplied, and is not semantically HMTL, because it is abusing option to simulate a scrollable positioned section (at least one browser has the option of displaying select as a set of radio buttons); I'm not sure what a good speech based browser would make of this!). > <tr><td align=center> > <form name="scrollform"> > <select name="scroller" size=4> > <option> > <option> > [DJW:] For compliant HTML 4+ browsers (i.e. not Netscape 4) you do not need the form element, although the correct way is with a DIV and style sheet.
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