form

Element information

Content

• Any text (mixed) content, intermingled with:
from type form.content
Choice [0..*]
from group block
p    
from group heading
h1    
h2    
h3    
h4    
h5    
h6    
div     generic language/style container
from group lists
ul     Unordered list
ol     Ordered (numbered) list
dl    
menu     single column list (DEPRECATED)
dir     multiple column list (DEPRECATED)
from group blocktext
pre     content is "Inline" excluding "img|object|applet|big|small|sub|sup|font|basefont"
hr    
blockquote    
address     information on author
center     center content
isindex     single-line text input control (DEPRECATED)
fieldset     The fieldset element is used to group form fields. Only one legend element should occur in the content and if present should only be preceded by whitespace. NOTE: this content model is different from the XHTML 1.0 DTD, closer to the intended content model in HTML4 DTD
table    
from group inline
a     content is "Inline" except that anchors shouldn't be nested
from group special
from group special.basic
br     forced line break
span     generic language/style container
bdo     I18N BiDi over-ride
from group special.extra
object    
applet    
img    
map    
iframe     inline subwindow
from group fontstyle
from group fontstyle.basic
tt     fixed pitch font
i     italic font
b     bold font
u     underline
s     strike-through
strike     strike-through
from group fontstyle.extra
big     bigger font
small     smaller font
font     local change to font
basefont     base font size
from group phrase
from group phrase.basic
em     emphasis
strong     strong emphasis
dfn     definitional
code     program code
q     inlined quote
samp     sample
kbd     something user would type
var     variable
cite     citation
abbr     abbreviation
acronym     acronym
from group phrase.extra
sub     subscript
sup     superscript
from group inline.forms
input     form control
select     option selector
textarea     multi-line text field
label     Each label must not contain more than ONE field Label elements shouldn't be nested.
button     Content is "Flow" excluding a, form and form controls
from group misc
noscript     alternate content container for non script-based rendering
from group misc.inline
ins    
del    
script     script statements, which may include CDATA sections

Attributes

Used in

• Anonymous type of element applet
• Anonymous type of element fieldset
• Anonymous type of element map
• Anonymous type of element object
• Type Flow
• Anonymous type of element blockquote via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element body via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element center via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element dd via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element del via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element div via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element iframe via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element ins via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element li via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element noscript via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element td via extension of Flow
• Anonymous type of element th via extension of Flow

Sample instance

<form action="http://www.example.com/">Any text, intermingled with:
   <p>Any text, intermingled with:
      <a>Any text, intermingled with:
         <br/>
      </a>
   </p>
</form>