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Wondering how to achieve w3 validation for textareas containing default text with html tags.
Here's my simple example:
<form action="form1.html" method="post">
<textarea name="area1" cols="40" rows="2">testing text with no tags</textarea>
<textarea name="area2" cols="40" rows="2"><p>testing text with no tags</p></textarea>
</form>
Submitting the above to w3.org (xhtml 1.0 transitional) produces the following error at the <p> tag on the line for textarea "area2".
"The element named above was found in a context where it is not allowed. This could mean that you have incorrectly nested elements -- such as a "style" element in the "body" section instead of inside "head" -- or two elements that overlap (which is not allowed).
One common cause for this error is the use of XHTML syntax in HTML documents. Due to HTML's rules of implicitly closed elements, this error can create cascading effects. For instance, using XHTML's "self-closing" tags for "meta" and "link" in the "head" section of a HTML document may cause the parser to infer the end of the "head" section and the beginning of the "body" section (where "link" and "meta" are not allowed; hence the reported error).
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