Demaestro
msg:4173671 | 10:25 pm on Jul 20, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I think it is because you need to close the singular tags.
<META http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
Should be:
<META http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
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Fotiman
msg:4173672 | 10:26 pm on Jul 20, 2010 (gmt 0) |
You need to have a <title> element in the <head> in order for it to be valid.
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Fotiman
msg:4173673 | 10:27 pm on Jul 20, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Note, you only need to close the meta tags with XHTML (so that's not the cause, as this is using an HTML 4 DOCTYPE).
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Demaestro
msg:4173701 | 11:07 pm on Jul 20, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the clarification. I still don't have all my doctype rules straight.
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babushka
msg:4173702 | 11:09 pm on Jul 20, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Ok thank you. I put the title tag back in and the head validates. But I am still back to my original problem which is getting the form to validate. Any ideas?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<TITLE>test</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV id=page>
<FORM action="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>" method="POST" name="fback">
</FORM>
</DIV> <!-- page -->
</BODY>
</HTML>
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babushka
msg:4173722 | 11:49 pm on Jul 20, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I'm down to bare minimum. Why won't it validate?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<TITLE>test</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM action="/test.php" method="POST" >
</FORM>
</BODY>
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babushka
msg:4173727 | 11:51 pm on Jul 20, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I changed to loose to get it to validate but that doesn't make sense. It should validate with strict no?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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vrtlw
msg:4173733 | 12:14 am on Jul 21, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Your form is not complete, see this example.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<TITLE>test</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM action="/test.php" method="POST" >
<P>Your comments?<BR>
<TEXTAREA Name="comments" rows="4" cols="20"></TEXTAREA>
<P><INPUT Type="submit" Value="Send">
<INPUT Type="reset" Value="Cancel">
</FORM>
</BODY>
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Fotiman
msg:4174024 | 1:44 pm on Jul 21, 2010 (gmt 0) |
The FORM element [w3.org] is defined by the DTD like this:
<!ELEMENT FORM - - (%block;|SCRIPT)+ -(FORM) -- interactive form -->
The part I've bolded means that the element must contain at least 1 %block% [w3.org] or SCRIPT element child. I've never understood why this was a requirement, but in any case I typically get around this by always wrapping the inner contents of my form in a DIV element:
<form action="/test.php" method="POST">
<div>
<!-- Contents of form go here -->
</div>
</form>
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babushka
msg:4174112 | 3:32 pm on Jul 21, 2010 (gmt 0) |
ok thanks
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