Can you nest html forms?

Question

Is it possible to nest html forms like this

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Answer 1

As it's 2019 I'd like to give an updated answer to this question. It is possible to achieve the same result as nested forms, but without nesting them. HTML5 introduced the form attribute. You can add the form attribute to form controls outside of a form to link them to a specific form element (by id).

https://www.impressivewebs.com/html5-form-attribute/

This way you can structure your html like this:

The form attribute is supported by all modern browsers. IE does not support this though but IE is not a browser anymore, rather a compatibility tool, as confirmed by Microsoft itself: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-security-chief-ie-is-not-a-browser-so-stop-using-it-as-your-default/. It's about time we stop caring about making things work in IE.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=form-attribute
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#attr-fae-form

From the html spec:

This feature allows authors to work around the lack of support for nested form elements.