[whatwg] nested forms: spec doesn't quite describe current HTML UA behaviour
Hallvord R M Steen
hallvors at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 01:43:46 PDT 2005
WF2 Spec says:
> Similarly, form elements in XHTML may now be nested
> (this does not apply to HTML, where a <form> tag is
> interpreted by UAs as implying the end of any unclosed
> form elements).
This doesn't describe UA behaviour according to my test cases. What
current UAs do is to ignore nested <form> *start* tags. They do not
close the outer form before the start tag of the inner form, but they
do close it on the end tag of the inner form.
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Hallvord R. M. Steen
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