You don't seem to support SELECT elements outside of FORM. NN4.5 doesn't either. However, MSIE5 does, the practice is not mentioned (either way) in HTML4.0, the document is valid, and it is basically allowed in DOM-Level-1 when it defines the form attribute on all the form widgets: Returns the FORM element containing this control. Returns null if this control is not within the context of a form. Compare the above URL (which doesn't render right) to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/dom/altsel_nglay.html I think it makes sense to support form widgets outside of forms because of scripting. FORMs should be used, I would think, if a form submission is needed. I'm not sure *why* they're not supported, so I'm filing on Parser.

This bug has been fixed. Reopening (from RESOLVED-REMIND) so that it can be RESOLVED-WORKSFORME.

Marking RESOLVED-FIXED (see above) and adding janc@netscape.com as QAContact (default for Parser).

Verifying per reporter comments (dbaron)