[css-d] invalid: nesting a div inside a dt-- alternative?

Hello! The validator is not liking this: Street Address: If known. What is a good solution? I'd like to have: label (break) help text (break) input If i make the div for help a span, how would I style it to go to next line? I'm using a dl for the form because I've had success i

[css-d] invalid: nesting a div inside a dt-- alternative?

On 20/10/05, Lisa Hoppes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > size="50" value="" maxlength="1" /> > (...) > What is a good solution? A form is not a definition list, guy... You shouldn't be using this way. The problem is not the tag that you'd use inside the "dd", is what to do to replace the

Re: [css-d] invalid: nesting a div inside a dt-- alternative?

> If i make the div for help a span, how would I style it to go to next > line? If you replace the div with a span, you could give it a "display: block;" and then treat it as you would a div. I'm not sure off the top of my head how this affects validity though. -- Peter J.Lambert home: http://pi

[css-d] invalid: nesting a div inside a dt-- alternative?-- SOLVED

Thanks to Paul Debban, who suggested that I associate the help text with the input rather than the label. This validates: Street Address: If known. Lisa On 10/20/05, Lisa Hoppes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The validator is not liking this: > > Street Address: > If known. > >

Re: [css-d] invalid: nesting a div inside a dt-- alternative?

On Oct 20, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Lisa Hoppes wrote: Should I bag the dl altogether and use a different method? Yes, please. Tag the form elements properly and use CSS to style them the way you need them is better than trying to fool the browser into doing it by claiming they're something els

Re: [css-d] invalid: nesting a div inside a dt-- alternative?

On 20/10/05, Peter J Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you replace the div with a span, you could give it a "display: > block;" and then treat it as you would a div. It would be valid, and would solve the problem, but, again, it wouldn't be semantically correct. But it's up to you... --

Re: [css-d] invalid: nesting a div inside a dt-- alternative?-- SOLVED

You could also use the on the , but display:block to force it down to the next line. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by

Re: [css-d] invalid: nesting a div inside a dt-- alternative?-- SOLVED

You probably know this but in case not, it looks like you have a typo in your name "projectdddress". Should it be "projectaddress" with an 'a'? That could hang you up later maybe if you were to make something for "projectaddress". cheers, Peter On 10/20/05, Lisa Hoppes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro