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From: Steven Faulkner
Date: Jun 10, 2005 2:10PM


Jukka "Yucca" Korpela wrote:

>Contrary to what the
> cited document
> claims, the <legend> element is _not_ optional. It is required by HTML
> syntax, see
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.10
> (Even the spec is misleading: it says that "The LEGEND element allows
> authors to assign a caption to a FIELDSET", but by the formal syntax,
> <legend> is required.)

Does this mean that the W3C validator is incorrect when it says a xhtml
1.0 transitional document containing a fieldset element without a legend
element is valid?

with regards

Steven Faulkner
Web Accessibility Consultant
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