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Asked: 2026-06-12T08:26:56+00:00

Can someone tell me why the W3C Validation Service says that this code is

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Can someone tell me why the W3C Validation Service says that this code is not valid?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>this is the title of the web page</title>
</head>
<body>

<form action="formscript.php" method="post">
    first name:<input type="text" name="firstname" />

    <input type="submit" />
</form>

</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    I tried both codes and the validator says that the question code is valid as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

    Anyway, the problem here is that you have no <fieldset> inside your <form> and that the text <input> has no <label>.

    <form action="formscript.php" method="post" name="thisform">
  <fieldset>
    <label for="firstname">first name:</label>
    <input type="text" name="firstname" />

    <input type="submit" />
  </fieldset>
</form>

    And don’t forget the DOCTYPE.

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