# Select/4 without form

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/select-4-without-form/6890>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** phoenix, phoenix\_html\
**Created:** [July 14, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/select-4-without-form/6890 "2017-07-14T06:09:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/select-4-without-form/6890/5 "2017-07-14T14:28:46Z")

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> [@NobbZ](#):
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> And they said HTML5 made things better…

Yeah, HTML5 is a bit backwards in many ways, I was really rooting for XHTML(2)…

> [@LostKobrakai](#):
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> With html5 that’s not the case. There aren’t restrictions on possible parents and there’s even the form attribute to link the select to a form elsewhere in the markup.

There is for tables, which is highly irritating with custom elements…

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