Form not working in Internet Explorer - html

Question

This form code is working in Mozilla and Chrome, but in Internet Explorer it is not working.
<form method="post" action="logincheck.php" >
<span class="meta">
<table>
</span>
<tr>
<td>
<span class="meta">
<label >Username </label>
</span>
<label>
</td>
<td> <input name="username" type="text" />
</label>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <label ><span class="meta">Password</td>
<td>
<input name="password" type="password" />
</span>
</label>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span class="meta">
</span>
<label>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" class="submit"/>
</label>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Answer 1

You have a number of HTML errors, most important being an extra </form> tag shortly after the first <input>. That means the second input and the submit button are outside the form, so it won't work. Firefox and Chrome are being a bit more forgiving here it seems.
Fix your HTML and the form should work fine.

Answer 2

You have errors that automated QA tools can detect

Answer 3

<form method="post" action="logincheck.php">
<label for="username">Username</label>
<input name="username" type="text" />
<label for="password">Password</label>
<input name="password" type="password" />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" class="submit" />
</form>
The correct code for this form must look like this.
You do not need the table, you can style the form with easily with CSS over selecting the label & input fields

Answer 4

<span class="meta">
<table>
</span>
The nesting is wrong. In fact, there's a lot more wrong. Try googling what <label> does exactly, and what <span> does and when you want to use it. You probably want something like this:
<form method="post" action="logincheck.php" >
<table>
<tr>
<td><label class="meta">Username </label></td>
<td><input name="username" type="text" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label class="meta">Password</td>
<td><input name="password" type="password" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" class="submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Answer 5

Here is a version without span tags, label and extra </form> in the middle of the table before submit button.
I guess, you added those by hands in plain text editors.
<form method="post" action="logincheck.php">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
Username
</td>
<td>
<input name="username" type="text" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Password
</td>
<td>
<input name="password" type="password" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" class="submit" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Answer 6

One first error is:
<span class="meta">
<table>
</span>
But you have many errors.
Open and close tags as you will do with parenthesis. No horse riding. HTML and now XHTML need you to be a little bit more conscientious.
usefull tool:
http://giminik.developpez.com/xhtml/
http://validator.w3.org/