Comments on: Validating forms in xhtml strict

By: Paul Flyer

Paul Flyer — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:08:11 +0000

Steve,

Glad to be of help!

Paul

By: Steven Donea

Steven Donea — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:30:28 +0000

I have finally succeeded in validating the search form fields on my website. After including the fieldset tag around all input elements. There was 1 error after though:
reference to non-existent ID “query”
fieldset>Search

Don’t need an id name for label? I took it off like in your example, and it validates now.
Search

Thanks a lot. Steven

By: Paul Flyer

Paul Flyer — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:05:48 +0000

Chase,

You’re most welcome!

Thanks for leaving a comment.

Paul

By: Chase

Chase — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:23:41 +0000

Thans a million! My forms kept messing up my validation until I put the fieldset tags in (which I didn’t know even existed until your post)

By: phillw

phillw — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:18:50 +0000

Thanks a million !! I had a really complicated form with with drop-downs & calls to MySQL dbase – all works fine. Put 2 simple “Click to turn off / on” buttons in a seperate page and all hell broke loose – Yikes !!! I had to set the padding to zero, as well as border – just in case someone is still having problems.

Phill.

By: Conpanna

Conpanna — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:13:45 +0000

Thank you! I was looking for it …

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:47:09 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. You’re solution to add around the form elements worked like charm.

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By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:39:01 +0000

That last comment isn’t very clear, but if you’re using “border:0;” you’re setting the border off, which doesn’t require a unit of measurement. If you’re trying to set the border to “border:1;” then you have to include a unit as in “border:1px;”

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:13:24 +0000

Great this has helped me!
and the css does validate.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:53:38 +0000

that little css hack is invalid:
Value Error : border only 0 can be a length. You must put a unit after your number : 1

By: sander-martijn

sander-martijn — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:58:47 +0000

As someone who’s done development for more than 13 yrs in all different languages, I have to say that’s the dumbest aspect of the new standards I’ve heard yet. Let’s just throw in another useless tag that does nothing for markup but defaults to something no one wants so everyone has to add in 3 lines of extra css…. wow. well thanks for straightening it out for me as the idea of input not validating inside form was almost as irritating to me as the solution.

By: Paul Flyer

Paul Flyer — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:25:45 +0000

Darren,

Very good question.

In you CSS file put the following:

fieldset {
border: 0;
}

This will remove the border around any fieldset tags in your code. Fieldset automatically creates a border around the objects it encloses. To learn more about fieldset check out this page.

By: Darren Hudson

Darren Hudson — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:59:06 +0000

your solution works for me to valid hidden input types, but a rounded rectangle appears around the form. do i need to add something to make this border invisible?