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Soenhay
Soenhay

Reputation: 4048

Is there a good reason that a form tag should not exist in the head tag?

Is there a good reason that a form tag should not exist in the head tag?

I was looking at this http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-form-element but I could not find anything related to this question.

This works for me:

<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
   <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server"></asp:ScriptManager>
</form>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.css" />

    <script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"></script>
    <script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js"></script>

</head>

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1339

Answers (2)

Alohci
Alohci

Reputation: 82976

If you look at http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/2014 in a browser other than IE (which has a very strange bug here), you will see that your form element is not in fact inside the head element. When the parser sees the <form> tag, it automatically closes the <head> element, creates the <body> element and puts the <form> element and all subsequent elements inside that <body> element.

Because this behaviour is necessary for backward compatibility with existing web pages, the spec can't be changed to allow <form> elements in head, even if there were a good use case for doing so.

Upvotes: 3

jfriend00
jfriend00

Reputation: 707238

HTML intended for display belongs in the <body> tag.

There are some browsers that will still display some tags that are put in the <head> tag, but that is not where it belongs and you are asking for interoperability problems if you put it there.

In the spec link that you referenced, it says that <form> tags go where flow content is expected. If you click on flow content, it refers to elements used in the body of documents. The body is what is in the <body> tag.

Upvotes: 1

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