- From: Michael A. Peters <mpeters@mac.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:38:05 -0700
- To: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
Matt Salmon wrote: > > > You’ll notice that in both transitional and strict modes, the viewstate > field gets wrapped in a div. Running each of these through the w3c > validator shows that this does in fact solve the validation error > regarding the underscore character in the id attribute, but if the rule > says ‘id’s can’t start with an underscore I don’t understand how the > extra div helps; the input id /still/ starts with an underscore! I'm not sure about the underscore thing but an input node can not be a direct child of a form node. An input can be child of fieldset, div, maybe some others, but not form. Why the spec was written that way I don't know, but that's the way it is.
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