Multiple form within one HTML table

Question

Out of a really long product list I am creating a table. Each row should be possible to update. HTML is not valid if I put multiple forms within one table. A solution would be to create for each row a single table, but the format would be really ugly.

I would like to make this:

<table>
<tr><form><td><input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" value=\"".$row['name']."\" /></td>\n";
</td><td></td>....<td><input type=\"submit\" name=\"Submit_btn\" id=\"Submit_btn\" value=\"Update\"></td></tr></form>
<tr><form><td></td><td></td>....<td><input type=\"submit\" name=\"Submit_btn\" id=\"Submit_btn\" value=\"Update\"></td></tr></form>
.
.
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</table>

It is not valid. What I could do?

Answer 1

Use one form around the entire table.

Filter out the data you don't need after it gets to the server.