xhtml validation problem

[legendx]

I get this error when trying to validate my webpage:

document type does not allow element "input" here; missing one of "p", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "div", "pre", "address", "fieldset", "ins", "del" start-tag.

This is the block of code, the error comes back on each input field

<tr>
                                                <td>
                                                <form method="post" action="login.php">
                                                <input type="text" name="username" value='Username' />
                                                <input type="password" name="password" />
                                                <input type="submit" value="Login" />
                                                </form>
                                                </td>
                                         </tr>

Do I have to wrap each input tag in <p> or one of the others listed? That seems excessive.

[Charles]

This isn't just an XHTML issue, you'll find the same thing with HTML. Just stick all of the form control elements inside one xhtml:fieldset or xhtml:div or in the case of HTML, FIELDSET or DIV.

[legendx]

Thanks