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Subject: Re: Is it legitimate to have a continuous TABLE through multiple FORMs?
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On 24/04/2019 16.30, Dan Campbell wrote:

Just pointing out that this should have been in a HTML related newsgroup 
or forum instead of here.


> She starts a FORM, then a table inside that form, and does a few things.
> Then, without closing the table, she closes the FORM, creates another form,
> and immediately starts adding rows to the first table, without creating a table.

A form-tag should enclose the whole table of reside within a column 
td-tag, if you want to try to follow the HTML specification, sure 
browsers try to fix faulty HTML, but they do it in different ways, so 
the faulty HTML may result in different looking/working pages.



> Note that the multiple FORMs themselves are inside one containing table, which is properly closed at the end.
>
> <div id="main">
>     <div class="container">
>        <table width="100%">
>          <tr>
>             <td>
>                <form class="xxxx" action="xxxx.php" method="post">
>                   <table id="xxxx" class="xxxx" width="100%">
>                      <tr>
> <!--...-->
> <!--...-->
> <!--...-->
> <!--...-->
>                      </tr>

Close the table here and then close the form

>                <!-- HERE IT IS, A NEW FORM WITHOUT CLOSING THE TABLE -->
>                </form>
>                <form class="xxxx" action="xxxxxx.php" method="post">
Open a new table here

>                <!-- AND CONTINUING THE EXISTING TABLE, FROM PREVOUS FORM -->
>                   <tr>
>                      <td colspan = "2">
>                          <label><b><u>APPLICANT DETAILS</u></b></label>
>                          <br>
>                          <br>
>                      </td>
>                   </tr>

close the second table and then close the form.


-- 

  //Aho