Re: Bug: at W3C HTML Validation Service

Terje Bless wrote:
> 
> On 29.09.99 at 05:11, Ole Moller <olm@chaos.dk> wrote:
> 
> >2) The validator says "tag not allowed here missing one of <object> ..."
> >when I open a form without closing my font-tag first.
> 
> The FORM element cannot be contained in a FONT element IIRC.
> 
> It's possible the validator could/should be improved to handle the
> situation better, but the above to errors are "correct" AFAIK, so the reply
> is "don't do that then". :-)
> 
> Can anyone think of a better way to report these things?

For the second error, the WDG HTML Validator [1] says "element FORM not
allowed here; possible cause is an inline element containing a
block-level element", which I think is a bit less confusing.

[1] http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

-- 
Liam Quinn
A Real Validator for Windows, http://arealvalidator.com
Web Design Group, http://www.htmlhelp.com

Received on Wednesday, 29 September 1999 10:48:40 UTC