fieldset

Element information

Content

• Any text (mixed) content, intermingled with:
• Sequence [1..1]
  1. legend [1..1] fieldset label
  2. 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
     noframes alternate content container for non frame-based rendering
     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
     • form
     from group inline
     a content is "Inline" except that anchors shouldn't be nested
     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.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.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 noscript  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element iframe  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element noframes  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element body  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element div  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element li  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element dd  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element blockquote  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element center  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element ins  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element del  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element th  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element td  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element form  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element object  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element applet  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element map  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element fieldset  via reference to block
• Group block
• Type Flow  via reference to block
• Type form.content  via reference to block

Sample instance

<fieldset> <--any elements or text--> </fieldset>