Wordpress Themes - WP Forum at BFA - XHTML Strict Validation Error, Possibly from comments.php

I'm running Wordpress 2.8.4 with Atahualpa 3.4.1. I'm getting XHTML strict validation errors on http://validator.w3.org, which seem to be related to comments.php. Here's the error:

Quote:

Error Line 501, Column 112: 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

…d_html_comment" value="a6b33afe5f"

I traced that to this snippet of XHTML:

HTML Code:

<!-- Comment Textarea -->

<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" rows="10" cols="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>

<input type="hidden" id="_wp_unfiltered_html_comment" name="_wp_unfiltered_html_comment" value="a6b33afe5f" />

...                

<!-- Submit -->

...

That XHTML seems to be generated by this php snippet in the theme's comments.php:

PHP Code:


		
			
<!-- Comment Textarea -->

<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" rows="10" cols="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>

<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>



<!-- Submit -->

I think the generated "input" element needs to be wrapped with a block element such as "p", "div", "fieldset", etc. I think either comments.php should wrap "<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>" with such an element or the do_action code should do it.

What is the best workaround for now?