w3c validator errors on form tag

i am using the w3c validator to check my website. on this website is a
simple search form:

<div>
<form enctype='multipart/form-data' action='./zoek.php' method='post'>
<input type='text' size='15' name='crit'>
</form>
</div>

the validator errors:

document type does not allow element "INPUT" here; missing one of "P",
"H1", "H2", "H3", "H4", "H5", "H6", "PRE", "DIV", "ADDRESS" start-tag

and is showing the point of error at the end of 'crit'

does anybody know what is going on?

thnks

ruud habets

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ruud habets wrote:

as i found on the net (not at w3c)
strict html requires a <p></p> or another one, as listed above, around the
input tag.

There is a new beta version of the W3C validator with friendly error
messages (yay!):

http://validator.w3.org:8001/

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ruud habets <kiosk (AT) xs4all (DOT) nl> wrote:

document type does not allow element "INPUT" here; missing one of
"P", "H1", "H2", "H3", "H4", "H5", "H6", "PRE", "DIV", "ADDRESS"
start-tag

as i found on the net (not at w3c)
strict html requires a <p></p> or another one, as listed above,
around the input tag.

This particular error message has been admitted to be misleading
(actually, plain wrong) but not fixed yet. (It lists a few elements that
may validly appear as sub-elements of <form>, but it omits several of
them, and many of those listed should normally not be used inside a form,
for semantic reasons.)

But you're on the right track. The Strict DTD has a "stricter" content
model for <form>. You just shouldn't use any markup just because a
validator "requires" that. In particular, don't use <p> markup unless you
really have a _paragraph_. Instead, you may consider using <div>, or
<fieldlist>.

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