Creating a Form inside a Table?

Hi,

Hope someone reads this newsgroup, I am having a problem when creating a
form inside a table column, well not so much as I can't but when I do it
will not validate at w3c.

Here is the table code:

<table class="special" border="4" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tr>
<form action="newpage.html"><td><input class="btn" type="submit"
value="Links"></td></form>
<form action="newpage.html"><td><input class="btn" type="submit"
value="Links"></td></form>
</tr>
<tr>
<form action="minepage.html"><td><input class="btn" type="submit"
value="Links"></td></form>
<form action="minepage.html"><td><input class="btn" type="submit"
value="Links"></td></form>
</tr>
<tr>
<form action="mypage.html"><td colspan="2"><input class="bigbtn"
type="submit" value="More Links"></td></form>
</tr>
</table>

The table uses a class from a css to adjust the border and background
colours/colors, the buttons also use the css to adjust their colours/colors,
size and font, I havn't finished it yet, still in the design phase (as you
can see by the pages the buttons open and the values).

Ok, I found that I had to do it this way as it displays correctly in IE and
Firefox with the form tags 'outside' of the td tags, but if I put the form
tags 'inside' the td tags then only Firefox displays the table correctly, IE
stuffs it and displays incorrectly.

I guess the question I have, is there any other way to do this that the
stupid "validation service" at w3c will validate it?

Hence the reason why I do not use the validation service, oh yeah, I have
tried doctype html and xhtml Transitional. I will probably keep designing
the website and forget what w3c thinks.


Thankyou...

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Glen Grainger"
<nightcrawler (AT) westnet (DOT) com.au> writing in
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Hi,

Hope someone reads this newsgroup, I am having a problem when creating
a form inside a table column, well not so much as I can't but when I
do it will not validate at w3c.

Here is the table code:

table class="special" border="4" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"
tr
form action="newpage.html"><td><input class="btn" type="submit"
value="Links"></td></form
form action="newpage.html"><td><input class="btn" type="submit"
value="Links"></td></form
/tr
tr
form action="minepage.html"><td><input class="btn"
type="submit"
value="Links"></td></form
form action="minepage.html"><td><input class="btn"
type="submit"
value="Links"></td></form
/tr
tr
form action="mypage.html"><td colspan="2"><input class="bigbtn"
type="submit" value="More Links"></td></form
/tr
/table

The table uses a class from a css to adjust the border and background
colours/colors, the buttons also use the css to adjust their
colours/colors, size and font, I havn't finished it yet, still in the
design phase (as you can see by the pages the buttons open and the
values).

Ok, I found that I had to do it this way as it displays correctly in
IE and Firefox with the form tags 'outside' of the td tags, but if I
put the form tags 'inside' the td tags then only Firefox displays the
table correctly, IE stuffs it and displays incorrectly.

I guess the question I have, is there any other way to do this that
the stupid "validation service" at w3c will validate it?

Hence the reason why I do not use the validation service, oh yeah, I
have tried doctype html and xhtml Transitional. I will probably keep
designing the website and forget what w3c thinks.


Thankyou...

You have to wrap the table in the form element, but have a look at
http://intraproducts.com/usenet/requiredform.asp and see if that helps
you a little. It's all CSS, and much more accessible.


--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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"Adrienne Boswell" <arbpen (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

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snip

You have to wrap the table in the form element, but have a look at
http://intraproducts.com/usenet/requiredform.asp and see if that helps
you a little. It's all CSS, and much more accessible.


--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
Please respond to the group so others can share

Hi, Thanks you the reply and link, I had a quick look abd didn't see
anything like what I wanted to do, will have a better look later.

What I ended up doing was removing the form and input tags completely then
using the button tag with a onclick function instead to open the pages that
I wanted. This way actually validated at w3c fine, but I have noticed that
in both IE and Firefox they 'block' the onclick function by default and you
have to 'alow' it to work.

Thanks again.