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Asked: 2026-05-23T10:33:28+00:00

I have a web page and I want to do something with user input

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I have a web page and I want to do something with user input text. Normally, <input type="text" /> is used inside a <form> nesting and setting input without form attribute is not acceptable in html strict schema. I want to avoid <form>, but still want some text field to use with JavaScript.

I am seeking an example with an option for text input and alert input data on click of a button, with/without jQuery.

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    Using W3C’s validator, this passes HTML 4.01 Strict:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><input type="text" value="hi"></p>
</body>
</html>

    and this passes XHTML 1.0 Strict:

    <!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">
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><input type="text" value="hi" /></p>
</body>
</html>

    The problem is that <input> is an inline tag and thus needs to be inside something that accepts such tags (<body> does not).

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