Title: Subscribe Form and W3c errors
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Subscribe Form and W3c errors

 *  Resolved [Olivierbresil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olivierbresil/)
 * (@olivierbresil)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribe-form-and-w3c-errors/)
 * Hello,
 * _(sorry my english is bad 🙁 )_
 * I have a problem with W3c Validator for the Subscribe Form of Mailchimp.
 * I have try to do some thing, after some research on google, but without success……
 * The code is :
 * <p>
    <label>Email Address:</label> <input required=”required” placeholder=”Seu
   email ” name=”EMAIL” type=”email”> </p> <p> <label>First Name:</label> <input
   placeholder=”Seu nome” name=”FNAME” type=”text”> </p> <p> <input value=”Subscribe”
   type=”submit”> </p>
 * **And W3c find 2 errors :**
 * **Attribute required is only allowed when the input type is checkbox, date, datetime,
   datetime-local, e-mail, file, month, number, password, radio, search, tel, text,
   time, url, or week.**
 * … <input required=”required” placeholder=”Seu email ” name=”EMAIL” type=”email”
   >
 * And
 * **Attribute placeholder is only allowed when the input type is e-mail, number,
   password, search, tel, text, or url.**
 * … <input required=”required” placeholder=”Seu email ” name=”EMAIL” type=”email”
   >
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/)

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 *  [shalun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shalun/)
 * (@shalun)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribe-form-and-w3c-errors/#post-5952802)
 * Olivierbresil,
 * According to w3с
    [https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/input/email](https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/input/email)
   <input … type=”email”> not “e-mail”
 * So everything is good with the form.
 * Plz, use this validator [http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/)
 *  Thread Starter [Olivierbresil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olivierbresil/)
 * (@olivierbresil)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribe-form-and-w3c-errors/#post-5952811)
 * Hello shalun,
 * Thanks you for your answer.
 * Regars
 *  [Flavia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/floushrofrey/)
 * (@floushrofrey)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribe-form-and-w3c-errors/#post-5952838)
 * Hi,
 * I have this problem: When users try to sign up for the newsletter, while typing
   their name / email in the fields of the form, no text is shown. It is as if the
   text field color would be set to white, but in fact it is set to black, so users
   should see what they are typing in straight away. The site is [http://www.femalesolotravel.com](http://www.femalesolotravel.com).
   Can anyone help?
 * Thanks,
    Fla
 *  Plugin Contributor [Harish Chouhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hchouhan/)
 * (@hchouhan)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribe-form-and-w3c-errors/#post-5952872)
 * [@flavia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flavia/), the issue might be due
   to some styling overwrite by your theme. Can you please share a link to the page
   on your website containing the form.

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 * Last reply from: [Harish Chouhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hchouhan/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribe-form-and-w3c-errors/#post-5952872)
 * Status: resolved