Title: WordPress 2.2 and forms
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress 2.2 and forms

 *  [jayshaffstall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayshaffstall/)
 * (@jayshaffstall)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-22-and-forms/)
 * I wasn’t able to find any mention of this, surprisingly. What I’m seeing is that
   when I try to embed a form into a post, WordPress keeps moving the ending form
   tag to the wrong spot.
 * You can see where it’s putting it on the post page: [http://www.onlineopportunity.org/using-opt-in-lists-to-boost-conversion-rates/](http://www.onlineopportunity.org/using-opt-in-lists-to-boost-conversion-rates/)
 * I’ve tried moving it to the right spot, but as soon as I save it’s back in the
   wrong spot. The Text Control plugin didn’t help. I have the visual editor turned
   off, and am editing HTML directly.
 * Is this a 2.2 issue, or something I’m doing wrong?

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-22-and-forms/#post-571323)
 * I see where it is, and cant tell that it’s in the wrong place.
 * In fact, its immediately beneath a paragraph that references it.
 * Im afraid you’ll need to be a little more specific about where you are putting
   it?
 *  Thread Starter [jayshaffstall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayshaffstall/)
 * (@jayshaffstall)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-22-and-forms/#post-571324)
 * <sigh> Tried one last thing before going to bed, and it fixed the problem. But
   I’m still not sure why.
 * The fix was to move the starting and ending form tags outside of the table. After
   that WordPress no longer felt the need to move the ending form tag.
 *  Thread Starter [jayshaffstall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayshaffstall/)
 * (@jayshaffstall)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-22-and-forms/#post-571325)
 * whooami,
 * Thanks for the reply. As I just posted before seeing yours, I managed to fix 
   the problem.
 * The symptom was that I had a form with a couple input fields and a submission
   button, but the ending form tag was being moved to before the submission button.
   So clicking Submit didn’t.
 * There was some interaction going on with the table, but I have no idea why.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-22-and-forms/#post-571326)
 * when I need to include a form i do this:
 * i use this plugin: [http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/TextControl](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/TextControl)
 * and turn off formatting. I dont worry about the second option , character encoding.
 * I dont use the rich text editor.
 * I then add my post, and do my HTML tags manually.
 * As long as I dont screw up and miss a closing tag, WP has no trouble.
 * All my plugin posts that contain the donation link are done the same way, without
   issue. Hell, I even put the form inside it’s own div.
 *  Thread Starter [jayshaffstall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayshaffstall/)
 * (@jayshaffstall)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-22-and-forms/#post-571329)
 * I did try the Text Control plugin before posting, but without any change in behavior.
   There’s something with the table and form interaction.
 * These particular forms were copied from autoresponder sites as examples, so used
   tables as part of the formatting.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-22-and-forms/#post-571332)
 * well you said you moved the form tags outside the table tags 🙂
 * thats the first clue, since nesting a form inside a table requires some extra
   mojo, and therefore the preferred way is to put the form outside the table.
 * See this for more info if you are curious:
 * [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/tables.html#nesting](http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/tables.html#nesting)
 * I doubt wordpress “moved” the code, instead what you saw was a result of having
   multiple xhtml validation errors on your site being aggravated by an improperly
   formatted form.
 * As long as you got it working ..
 * happy blogging!
 *  Thread Starter [jayshaffstall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayshaffstall/)
 * (@jayshaffstall)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-22-and-forms/#post-571335)
 * Thanks for the link! That does match what I was seeing, the form being constrained
   to a single table cell.

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