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audiopro

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Some basic code but with a number of errors.
What am I missing here?
It works fine without the table code but I am intrigued with what is wrong here.
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method='post' action='script.pl'>
<table>
<input type='hidden' name='call' value='resend'>
<tr><td>Your Name</td><td><input type='text' name='CONTACT' value=''></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email Address</td><td><input type='text' name='EMAIL' value=''></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan='2'><input type='submit' NAME='submit' value='Please Email My Log in Details'></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>



Keith
 
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Hi Keith,
Firefox web developer tool validator results showed no charset specified, so I put one in and then I just placed your hidden input type in a tr in the table and then bingo it validated. Don't know why it was failing though!!

See code below
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method='post' action='script.pl'>
<table>
<tr><td><input type='hidden' name='call' value='resend'><tr><td>
<tr><td>Your Name</td><td><input type='text' name='CONTACT' value=''></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email Address</td><td><input type='text' name='EMAIL' value=''></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan='2'><input type='submit' NAME='submit' value='Please Email My Log in Details'></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Steve
 
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Hi Keith,
Ooops, minor correction to my code. I didn't close my tr and td tags correctly. Code below has been corrected and it still validates.

After a short Google session it would appear that any content outside of table tags ( tr, td etc ) will not validate as content should appear inside table tags. It still displays in a browser though.

Anyway, hope this helps

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method='post' action='script.pl'>
<table>
<tr><td><input type='hidden' name='call' value='resend'></td></tr>
<tr><td>Your Name</td><td><input type='text' name='CONTACT' value=''></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email Address</td><td><input type='text' name='EMAIL' value=''></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan='2'><input type='submit' NAME='submit' value='Please Email My Log in Details'></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Regards

Steve
 
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Thanks Steve
I think there must be something corrupted in my original file.
Pasting my original code, from the code box above, into a HTML page - does not validate.
The code you returned, even with the charset line removed, does validate.
All is working now thanks.


Keith
 
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The main reason your code does not validate is your hidden input.

There can be nothing between <table> tags if its not also contained between <tr> and <td> tags.
i.e. your hidden input is misplaced, and causes the rest of the validation errors.

Remove it, and your code will validate as is.

Code: 
<table>
[b][COLOR=#A40000]<input type='hidden' name='call' value='resend'>[/color][/b]
<tr><td>Your Name</td><td><input type='text' name='CONTACT' value=''></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email Address</td><td><input type='text' name='EMAIL' value=''></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan='2'><input type='submit' NAME='submit' value='Please Email My Log in Details'></td></tr>
</table>

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