table inside form?

[Luciano A. Ferrer]

It is ok tu use a table tag inside a form tag?

(you know, you do not use h2 inside p, etc...)

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[pegasusflightresources]

This idea is very possible, though I have never tried it. It should
not mess up the HTML code, but if it does, you can just preview the
site in IE and then check the Error Warning sign in the bottom left
corner. I have had some simple errors in my site, but those were
discerned through this method. It actually caught a mispelling that I
made in a JavaScript, so it should catch most other problems.

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[David Dorward]

Luciano A. Ferrer wrote:

It is ok tu use a table tag inside a form tag?

Syntactically it is fine. Semantically it may or may not be.

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[axlq]

In article <e0**********@t ramontana.micas a.mired>,
Luciano A. Ferrer <al************ @arnet.com.ar> wrote:

It is ok tu use a table tag inside a form tag?

Yes, in fact this is quite common. It validates correctly too.

Form tags can contain anything, sort of like div tags.

-A

[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Luciano A. Ferrer"
<al************ @arnet.com.ar> writing in news:e0ktbi$7md $2
@tramontana.mic asa.mired:

It is ok tu use a table tag inside a form tag?

(you know, you do not use h2 inside p, etc...)

Yes, you can put a table inside a form, which is what a lot of people do to
line up input elements, but there is a better way using CSS.

Here's an example:
<URL:http://www.intraproduc ts.com/usenet/requiredform.as p>

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[David Dorward]

axlq wrote:

Form tags can contain anything, sort of like div tags.

Not true.

<!ELEMENT FORM - - (%block;|SCRIPT )+ -(FORM) -- interactive form -->

Anything in the group "block" and script elements but not form elements.

<!ELEMENT DIV - - (%flow;)* -- generic language/style
container -->

Anything in the group "flow" (which includes everything in "block" but
also "inline".

(At least for HTML 4.01 Strict).

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[axlq]

In article <Xn************ *************** *@69.28.186.121 >,
Adrienne Boswell <ar********@sbc global.net> wrote:

Yes, you can put a table inside a form, which is what a lot of
people do to line up input elements, but there is a better way
using CSS.

Here's an example:
<URL:http://www.intraproduc ts.com/usenet/requiredform.as p>

I disagree that's a better way. Discounting the fact that this
example is XHTML and not HTML, bear in mind that one of the
advantages of CSS is to reduce the bandwidth required to serve up
a page. In the example above, it seems to me that a table-based
for a form would be simpler, easier to understand, and consume less
bandwidth.

A table is entirely appropriate when you want to maintain both a
horizontal and vertical relationship between displayed elements.
That's what it's for.

-A

[axlq]

In article <e0************ *******@news.de mon.co.uk>,
David Dorward <do*****@yahoo. com> wrote:

axlq wrote:

Form tags can contain anything, sort of like div tags.

Not true.

I stand corrected; you can't have a form within a form, of course.

-A

[David Dorward]

axlq wrote:

I stand corrected; you can't have a form within a form, of course.

No, for example, can they directly contain free text, or form controls.
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[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed ax**@spamcop.ne t (axlq) writing in
news:e0******** **@blue.rahul.n et:

In article <Xn************ *************** *@69.28.186.121 >,
Adrienne Boswell <ar********@sbc global.net> wrote:

Yes, you can put a table inside a form, which is what a lot of
people do to line up input elements, but there is a better way
using CSS.

Here's an example:
<URL:http://www.intraproduc ts.com/usenet/requiredform.as p>

I disagree that's a better way. Discounting the fact that this
example is XHTML and not HTML, bear in mind that one of the
advantages of CSS is to reduce the bandwidth required to serve up
a page. In the example above, it seems to me that a table-based
for a form would be simpler, easier to understand, and consume less
bandwidth.

A table is entirely appropriate when you want to maintain both a
horizontal and vertical relationship between displayed elements.
That's what it's for.

-A

Bandwidth? 3463 bytes with a table and 3125 bytes with CSS and no tables,
and that would be further reduced because one would use an external
stylesheet.

CSS HTML 4.0 <URL:http://www.cavalcade-of-
coding.info/usenet/requiredform.ht ml>
Table HTML 4.0 <URL:http://www.cavalcade-of-
coding.info/usenet/requiredform_ta ble.html>

In recreating the form using tables, I found it to not be simpler at all.
Getting the form to display the same way using HTML attributes vs CSS
properties was not easy, and is still not quite right.

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