<form> inside <span>?

[Michael]

Am I allowed to do: <span><form ..>...</form></span> or will certain
browsers choke?

Thanks

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Talbot?=]

Am I allowed to do: <span><form ..>...</form></span> or will certain
browsers choke?

Thanks

How about submitting your code, all of your markup code, to the W3C
markup validator and see what happens?
http://validator.w3.org/

Otherwise, how about reading the HTML 4.01 spec?
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-SPAN

Gérard

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Am I allowed to do: <span><form ..>...</form></span> or will certain
browsers choke?

<span> is an inline element and can only contain .. well .. inline
things. <form> is block-level element.

You could put a form inside a <div>, but it would help to know the
reason you want to do this. URL of page?

This will help:
http://validator.w3.org/

 

[Rob McAninch]

<span> is an inline element and can only contain .. well ..
inline things. <form> is block-level element.

You could re-style form as display:inline or try using the input
without form...

You could put a form inside a <div>, but it would help to know
the reason you want to do this. URL of page?

Yes, knowing what the objective is would help

 

[Mark Parnell]

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Rob McAninch

You could re-style form as display:inline

The HTML still won't validate.

or try using the input
without form...

Also not valid.

Yes, knowing what the objective is would help

Indeed.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

You could re-style form as display:inline

form { display: inline; }
span { display: block; }

or try using the input without form...

and defeat the general purpose of having a form...

Yes, knowing what the objective is would help

Surely true. We only speculate, right?

 

[Toby Inkster]

form { display: inline; }
span { display: block; }

Which won't make it any more valid.

 

[Michael Winter]

[...] Rob McAninch <[email protected]> spouted in alt.html:
[snip]

or try using the input without form...

Also not valid.

It would be valid. It might be pointless, but it would be valid. Form
controls can be inserted outside a FORM element, in pretty much any
location an in-line element can exist.

[snip]

Mike

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Which won't make it any more valid.

You missed the smilie ... <g>

 

[Mark Parnell]

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Michael Winter

It would be valid.

True - my bad.

It might be pointless,

Indeed.

 

[Rob McAninch]

Michael wrote:

Am I allowed to do: <span><form ..>...</form></span> or
will certain browsers choke?

<span> is an inline element [...] <form> is block-level
element.

You could re-style form as display:inline

form { display: inline; }

That's the idea if you want to dispense with the span and treat
form as inline. Using form within span; you already pointed out
was invalid.

and defeat the general purpose of having a form...

INPUT is generally found in a form, but isn't required to be.
Depending on the op's purpose this is an option.

 

[Michael]

Thanks a lot. I never thought of having the code validated at the link
you've posted. Makes sense!