Should 'form' be used here, or is it not necessary?

[TechnoBear]

The question has been answered in your other thread:

Is it bad practice to use empty div tags?

For form control elements to be deemed ‘successful form controls’ they must be inside a form tag. Form controls are however allowed oustside a form tag but controls outside a form cannot be successful controls. (html5 expands on this and changes terms slightly.) Generally when building an interface reliant on JS only then you would not use a form tag as you are not posting anything to the server Of course most people would ensure that their pages work even when js is disabled and having the d…

If you did use the <form> element, why would you also retain the <div>? You can add the class to the form for styling.