Posted by William Tasso on 06/30/87 11:37

Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
Paul Watt <paulio@wattioNOSPAM.freeserve.co.uk> stumbled into
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and said:

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> Hi,
> The following code fails validation when used with a html 4.01 strict
> DTD.
> why and how can i fix it?

Is this a guessing game? how about some context? remainder of markup or
a URI would be useful.

ok - guessing ....

>
> <form action="/cgi-sys/entropysearch.cgi" target=searchwindow
> class="search">

target not allowed - lose it.

> <img src="images/search.gif" alt="search" width="70" height="13">
> <input type="text" name="query" value="" />

elements don't need the closing "/" in HTML - lose them

> <input type="hidden" name="user" value="dunmowka" />
> <input type="hidden" name="basehref"
> value="http://dunmowkarate.co.uk"
> />
> <input type="hidden" name="template" value="default" />
> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
> </form>

There is no fieldset defined - IIRC you do need some sort of containing
element - perhaps a <div> would do. Or maybe you need both - can't
remember now.
--
William Tasso

Save the drama
for your Mama.

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