<font size="4"><font face="georgia,serif">I'm in the process of converting my site (<a href="http://informationr.net/ir">informationr.net/ir</a>) from xhtml to html5</font></font><div><font size="4"><font face="georgia,serif"><br>
</font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="georgia,serif">When I check a page with <a href="http://html5.validator.nu">html5.validator.nu</a> I am told:</font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="georgia,serif"><br>
</font></font></div><div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><strong>Error</strong>: Attribute <code style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">maxlength</code> not allowed on element <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-input-element"><code style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">input</code></a> at this point.</p>
<p class="location" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">From line <span class="first-line">342</span>, column <span class="first-col">2</span>; to line <span class="last-line">342</span>, column <span class="last-col">206</span></p>
<p class="extract" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><code style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">ht:32;"><span class="lf" title="Line break" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">↩</span> <b style="background-color:rgb(255,102,102)"><input type="hidden" name="q" maxlength="255" size="31" value=""health information" (&quo<span class="snip">…</span>ormation seeking" or "information searching" or "information use") Canada"></b><br /></code></p>
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<code style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">However, all the information I can find about both 'maxlength' and 'size' (which is also rejected in the same way) tells me that both are permitted in html5. Is the validator wrong on this?</font></code></p>
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<code style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Many thanks for any help,</font></code></p><p class="extract" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<code style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></code></p><p class="extract" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><code style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Tom Wilson</font></code></p>
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