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Posted by Edwin van der Vaart on 08/13/05 19:14
Frogleg wrote:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~absolutelyfake/test.htm
>
> fails HTML 4.01 Strict validation rather spectacularly. The first
> error,
>
> "document type does not allow element "INPUT" here; missing one of
> "P", "H1", "H2", "H3", "H4", "H5", "H6", "PRE", "DIV", "ADDRESS"
> start-tag.,"
>
> refers to the first <input> tag.
>
> (It validates as HTML 4.01 Transitional)
>
> Of course the form doesn't *work*, because that web space has no SS
> facilities. I just want to know why it fails validation. Any ideas?
Change the doctype to a proper doctype eg.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Then try it again.
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