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

Sample instance

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