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Can someone please tell me why this doesn't validate:
<form method="post" action="mail.php"><input type="hidden" name="phpMyAdmin" value="4594f30712f4fabaff6997416810f3f2" />
<p class="form">E-mail: </p>
<input name="email" type="text" size=40><br />
<p class="form">Message: </p>
<textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="40"></textarea><br />
<p><input id="button" input type="submit" value="Send"></p>
</form>
I am a real amateur at php and couldn't make head nor tail of the W3C comments. -
- CommentAuthorPettyRider
- CommentTimeAug 17th 2006 edited
Your INPUT elements need to be in a block-level element, like a DIV or a P, but a FIELDSET is recommended.<form method="post" action="mail.php"><input type="hidden" name="phpMyAdmin" value="4594f30712f4fabaff6997416810f3f2" />
<fieldset><input type="hidden" name="phpMyAdmin" value="4594f30712f4fabaff6997416810f3f2" />
<legend>These Fields</legend>
<p class="form">E-mail: </p>
<input name="email" type="text" size=40><br />
<p class="form">Message: </p>
<textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="40"></textarea><br />
<p><input id="button" input type="submit" value="Send"></p>
</fieldset>
</form>
You also might want to change those P.form elements to LABELs. An the BRs should go out the window as well. -
Thanks for the advice but it still doesn't validate:
<input name="email" type="text" size=40><br />
an attribute value specification must be an attribute value literal unless SHORTTAG YES is specified.
<input name="email" type="text" size=40><br />
You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".
<input name="email" type="text" size=40><br />
start tag was here.
<p><input id="button" input type="submit" value="Send"></p>
"input" is not a member of a group specified for any attribute.
<p><input id="button" input type="submit" value="Send"></p>
end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.
<p><input id="button" input type="submit" value="Send"></p>
start tag was here. -
all attributes on HTML elements need to be quoted (even if their value is numeric), and all elements need to close (but can be self-closing).
so your form fields like this:
<input name="email" type="text" size=40>
should really be like this:
<input name="email" type="text" size="40" /> -
If you're interested, check out this article: Prettier Accessible Forms. It talks about form styling and structure, and I've found it more than helpful.
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- CommentAuthorWhereIsThatDeafGuy
- CommentTimeAug 18th 2006
It depends on the DOCTYPE one is using.
A good example of a simple validated form would be something like this:
<form action="example.html" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="phpMyAdmin" value="4594f30712f4fabaff6997416810f3f2" />
<div id="formBox">
<label for="email">E-Mail Address:</span></label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email">
<label for="comments">Comments:</label>
<textarea id="comments" name="comments"></textarea>
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" id="submit">
</div>
</form> -
- CommentAuthordmitryseliv
- CommentTimeAug 18th 2006
If document type is HTML 4 it should validate.
But it will not validate as XHTML.
As nifkin said - it should look like this for valid XHTML document - <input name="email" type="text" size="40" />
Why we even talking about it I fell like I back to school.
Cheers, DS -
Thanks for all the help. I finally managed to validate it.
Sorry it felt like you were back at school, this is my first try at forms and php.
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