Is it a bad practice to have nested forms?

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Is it a bad practice to have something like this?:

<form method="post">

<form method="post">
</form>

</form>

100% bad....never use nested forms. – Harry Joy May 11 '11 at 04:34 — Harry Joy, May 11 '11 at 04:34

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '11 at 04:30

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Yes. Very much so. And it won't work properly. I would restructure the page to make sure it doesn't have it nested..

answered May 11 '11 at 04:30

M.R.

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Piskvor left the building · Answer 2 · 2011-05-11T06:58:16.483

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It is completely invalid markup - it will break in various painful, interesting and different ways in various browsers. Is it bad practice to write invalid HTML? (hint: yes, it's a Bad Idea) Even if you don't give a rat's ass about valid HTML, is it bad practice to write HTML which is almost certain to give your users incorrect behavior? (hint: yes, it's a Bad Idea, unless you passionately hate your users)

edited May 11 '11 at 06:58

answered May 11 '11 at 06:52

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I hate my users and I *still* wouldn't do this. – Wesley Murch May 11 '11 at 07:07

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 11 '11 at 04:30

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I'm pretty sure that will never work as expected properly. 100% bad practice as far as I know / am concerned.

answered May 11 '11 at 04:30

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Is it a bad practice to have nested forms?

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