Posted by Jonathan on 10/06/05 19:22

I am pasting some code below that I am having a lot of trouble with. I
have a php guestbook page that I'm trying to validate, and I keep
getting an error stating that I can't have a certain "input" element in
a location in which I am not actually attempting to place one at all. I
have tried to enclose all other input elements in blocks of "td" tags,
which has worked for the most part, but because this particular input
element seems to be dynamically generated, I can't figure out what I
ought to do to prevent it from producing this kind of error.




Here's the error code:

Error Line 71 column 153: document type does not allow element "input"
here; missing one of "p", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "div",
"pre", "address", "fieldset", "ins", "del" start-tag.

....="fa4a5c7b4eab7d80abb333272ea9d308" /><table
style="width:100%;"><tr><td cols





Here is the PHP code in which this is actually occuring (I've verified
that this is where it's occurring by making minute changes and
re-viewing a validation check):

print "<form method=\"post\"
action='guestbook.php?guestbook=$guestbook;'>";
[auto-insert of input element seems to be occurring here]
print "<table style=\"width:100%;\">";
....
print "</table>";




So, my question is, since I know there may not be a lot I can do to
prevent the auto-insertion, does anyone have any suggestions on how I
might code around such an expected auto-insertion of an input element?
This is the only page on which I've had this problem, even though my
(much more complicated) weblog page validates perfectly (with the
exception of my web host's auto-inserted raw ampersands in the URL
links), and that page contains even more forms that are built in a
virtually identical fashion.

If anybody has any suggestions, that would be great.

Thanks,

Jon

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