total nube trying to validate
i am trying to validate my form generated with php as HTML 4.01 Strict
this is the form
<td align=”left” class=”boxText”>
<form name=”vendor_search” action=”https://zzzzz.com/xxxxx.php” method=”get”>
<input type=”text” name=”postcode” size=”10″ maxlength=”5″ >
<input type=”hidden” name=”action” value=”submit”>
<input type=”submit” value=”Enter Zip Code” title=” Enter Zip Code ” class=”button”>
</form>
</td>

thiese are the errors

[quote]Error Line 86, column 197: document type does not allow element “INPUT” here; missing one of “P”, “H1”, “H2”, “H3”, “H4”, “H5”, “H6”, “PRE”, “DIV”, “ADDRESS” start-tag .
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…e=”postcode” size=”10″ maxlength=”5″ ><input type=”hidden” name=”action” valu
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document type does not allow element “INPUT” here; missing one of “P”, “H1”, “H2”, “H3”, “H4”, “H5”, “H6”, “PRE”, “DIV”, “ADDRESS” start-tag .

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…”hidden” name=”action” value=”submit”><input type=”submit” value=”Enter Zip C
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document type does not allow element “INPUT” here; missing one of “P”, “H1”, “H2”, “H3”, “H4”, “H5”, “H6”, “PRE”, “DIV”, “ADDRESS” start-tag .

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…le=” Enter Zip Code ” class=”button”> </form></td>
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end tag for “FORM” which is not finished .

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… Zip Code ” class=”button”> </form></td>
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