What is the tag to create a border around html forms? It looks something like below:

 ___Form Name______
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|                  |
|                  |
|                  |
|__________________|

8/29/2006 4:32:59 PM

<fieldset>

8/29/2006 4:37:42 PM

A form isn't a visual element.

If you want a border around your form elements you need to either use a table or a div tag. Either way you should use the style="border: black 1px solid;" element to set the border. black can be replaced with any recognized color shortcut word or any hex value (#000000), 1px is the width in pixels, and solid sets the type of border (google for other options if you need them)

^Or that

If you use fieldset, you should go ahead and use captions and labels to identify your form elements (ie the legend tag)

[Edited on August 29, 2006 at 4:41 PM. Reason : dunno what happened there]

8/29/2006 4:38:12 PM

http://www.google.com/search?q=html+border+around+forms&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

8/29/2006 4:38:16 PM

^Dunno what that is, but not really helpful

[Edited on August 29, 2006 at 4:41 PM. Reason : .]

8/29/2006 4:40:24 PM

more specifically

<fieldset><legend>Field Name</legend></fieldset>

as for if whether this is functional or visual argument, i think it can be both, but never just for visual. i can show you an excellent example.

8/29/2006 4:41:38 PM

yea, fieldset is the "proper" way to do it, I've just rarely if ever made use of it (shame on me). With a little css it can be just as pretty as using divs all over the place.

8/29/2006 4:42:47 PM

some underused HTML elements, including fieldset and legend, here - http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1282

8/29/2006 4:51:42 PM

^thats a seriously cool link

8/29/2006 8:17:38 PM

indeed, thanks for that link. learn something new everyday.

8/29/2006 8:28:08 PM

yeah, i didn't know about any of those. I'd seen optgroup, but didn't know how to use it.

8/29/2006 11:52:26 PM