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Posted: **Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:53 pm**

Does not validate as correct XHTML 1.1:

Error Line 606, column 331: document type does not allow element "select" here; missing one of "ins", "del", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "p", "div", "address", "fieldset" start-tag .

...entById('language_chooser').submit();"><option value="en" >English</option><o

The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element.

One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as "<p>" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "<a>", "<span>", or "<font>")

Posted: **Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:15 am**

Well, you should try HTML4.01 Transitional and it's mostly valid (the parser
has problems with /> tag ending and errorneously marks them as errors,
btw). The error from that XHTML 1.1 validator is saying <form> element
can't have <select> in there, but this is the normal way to make a listbox
form. In fact the XHTML 1.1 validator puts out that same error on all the
<form> elements in the other plugins, too, although they're all normal.

Posted: **Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:27 pm**

In fact frodeste is right.

Code: Select all

<form>
<input>
</form>

is not valid XHTML.

Code: Select all

<form>
<div><input></div>
</form>

is, though. I have just patched the plugin to reflect that. If you know of other plugins that do this inproperly, I would love to get a report on that so that I can fix it.

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: **Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:43 pm**

garvinhicking wrote:In fact frodeste is right...

I'll report any if I can find them.

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