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**kmoore11** · 06-11-2008, 02:57 PM

So I have a simple form I'm including on a page:

Code:

 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<title>Text</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="something.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain" id="suggestion">
  <p class="form">Name: </p><br />
  <input type="text" id="name" size="30" /><br />
  <p class="form">Email: </p><br />
  <input type="text" id="email" size="30" /><br />
  <p class="form">Suggestions:</p><br />
  <textarea rows="%%%%" cols="30" id="suggestions" /><br />
  <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

When I try to validate it, W3C says I'm not allowed to have any of those tags inside the form tag.

Quote:

Line 9, Column 33: document type does not allow element "br" here; missing one of "p", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "div", "pre", "address", "fieldset", "ins", "del" start-tag.
Name: The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element.
One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as "" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "<a>", "", or "").

It had that 10 times for each tag in there. Any help?

**nyef** · 03:03 PM

Move the tag to be INSIDE the tag (to the left of it).
Or get rid of them completely and change the "form" css class to have "display:block;" or "clear:right;".