POST in netscape (was: Re: [ale] OT: laptops on a network, security)

[John Wells]

Christopher Fowler said:
> Right, the first textarea is not even to be used by a form.  It is just
> there to display output of commands executed by the cgi program


Still, iirc, textareas are *form* elements, which mean they are required
to be surrounded by form tags, even if you're not submitting the contents.
 Some browsers will render them properly without the form tags, others
won't.  This could have changed, but it definitely used to be this way.

John




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