Re: [VE][73] end tag for "FORM" which is not finished.

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Brenton Strine wrote:

> The validator doesn't like my empty form:

It has no likes or dislikes. It only answers the question you asked it to 
solve, even though you might not have realized you asked it: does this 
document conform to the Document Type Definition that it declares to 
conform to?

> <form method="post" name="name" action="action"></form>

Apparently you are using a Document Type Definition that does not allow 
such an element.

> What is the valid way to do it?

Using a Transitional DTD. The Strict DTDs require that a form element 
contain at least one block element or script element. You can make the 
markup valid by putting <div></div> inside the form, but then it's not an 
empty form any more, even though there's no _visible_ content.

-- 
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Received on Saturday, 1 September 2007 21:21:48 UTC