XHTML Frameset - Form problem

Crow555 · #1 Jun 25th, 2008, 12:48

I'm trying to upgrade a web app to be XHTML compliant. However, the default page is causing me a problem.

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

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>AppName</title>
</head>	
<form name="frmTest" action="index.asp" target="OtherFrame" method="post" ></form>
  <frameset onload="document.frmTest.submit();">
	<frame name="OtherFrame" title="Main Container frame - Other Frames are contained within this Frame." scrolling="yes" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"  ></frame>
  </frameset>

</html>

That's the source from the web app. When I try to validate it whoever, I get the error

Line 9, Column 71: document type does not allow element "form" here.

and it points to the closing bracket on the open form tag.

I've tried putting body tags in but that just breaks the page. The page works fine as it is. What am I doing wrong?

Also, just to explain about the code. When the webapp loads, the default page (above) loads and in turn calls the Index.asp page so this really is only the starting page. It's worked fine all this time but the XHTML validation says it's wrong. What to do?

Aso · #2 Jun 25th, 2008, 15:31

I'm not entirely sure this is the case, but I think you need it in the following format (below validates);

HTML: Select all

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

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>AppName</title>
</head>    
    <frameset>
        <!-- All content must lie within <frameset> -->
    </frameset>
</html>

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