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From: Steven Faulkner
Date: Jun 10, 2005 3:20PM

Hi Thomas,

Thomas wrote:
> It seems to me that:
>
> 1) LEGEND is _required_ as the first child of FIELDSET.
> [HTML 4]
>
> 2) LEGEND _should_ (but not required) be the first child of FIELDSET.
> [XHTML 1]
>
> Is my interpretation correct?

running code containing FIELDSET element without a LEGEND element with
the 2 Doctype's (html 4.01 and xhtml 1.1) through the W3C validator
supports your interpretation.

best regards
stevef


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