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Please don’t ever link to w3schools.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Forms

https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/sec-forms.html#sec-forms

Hmm I've been using w3schools for quite some time now but I ALWAYS double check it with a third source, often MDN. I really like their straight to the point approach and I think they've been fixing some of the odd stuff lately. I don't really think it's really that bad if you already have some previous experience, it can work OK as a quick reference.

Sorry, but why not?

http://www.w3fools.com/

all that link says is that w3c is "not reputable". no evidence. For learning the basics in webdev (coming from C/C++) I've never had a problem with w3c.

It used to have more detail:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110117085131/http://w3fools.co...

Even if they have fixed all these instances since then, that all those errors were ever produced is a bad sign, especially when there were better alternatives even then.

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