steve.haffen...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone tell me why the HTML specification does not restrict form
elements from appearing outside of the form tag?
For use in client side scripts IIRC. (HTML 4.01 does have some flaws)
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David Dorward
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2009/7/15 steve.haffen...@gmail.com:
Can anyone tell me why the HTML specification does not restrict form
elements from appearing outside of the form tag?
HTML 4.01 section 17.2.1: The elements used to create controls
generally appear inside a FORM element, but may also appear outside of
a
Can anyone tell me why the HTML specification does not restrict form
elements from appearing outside of the form tag?
HTML 4.01 section 17.2.1: The elements used to create controls
generally appear inside a FORM element, but may also appear outside of
a FORM element declaration when
Mathew Robertson wrote:
Another related question to ask... Why is putting a hidden input field, as
the first child of a form element, disallowed?
Because it is an %inline element.
The child element(s) of a form must be %block.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.3
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David
2009/7/15 Mathew Robertson mat...@optusnet.com.au:
Another related question to ask... Why is putting a hidden input field, as
the first child of a form element, disallowed?
The HTML 4.01 DTD specifies that only block-level elements or script
elements may appear as the immediate children of
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steve.haffen...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone tell me why the HTML specification does not restrict form
elements from appearing outside of the form tag?
For use in client side scripts IIRC. (HTML 4.01 does have some flaws)
--
David Dorward
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2009/7/15 steve.haffen...@gmail.com:
Can anyone tell me why the HTML specification does not restrict form
elements from appearing outside of the form tag?
HTML 4.01 section 17.2.1: The elements used to create controls
generally appear
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Mathew Robertson wrote:
Another related question to ask... Why is putting a hidden input
field, as
the first child of a form element, disallowed?
Because it is an %inline element.
The child element(s) of a form must be %block.
http
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Subject: Re: Re: [WSG] Form question
Can anyone tell me why the HTML specification does not restrict form
elements from appearing outside of the form tag?
HTML 4.01 section 17.2.1: The elements used to create controls
generally appear inside a FORM element, but may
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Subject: Re: Re: [WSG] Form question
2009/7/15 Mathew Robertson mat...@optusnet.com.au:
Another related question to ask... Why is putting a hidden input
field, as the first child of a form element, disallowed?
The HTML 4.01 DTD specifies that only block-level elements
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steve.haffen...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone tell me why the HTML specification does not restrict form
elements from appearing outside
Another related question to ask... Why is putting a hidden input
field, as the first child of a form element, disallowed?
The HTML 4.01 DTD specifies that only block-level elements or script
elements may appear as the immediate children of the FORM element;
input elements are inline:
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Can anyone tell me why the HTML specification does
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