HTML Guides for positive integer

The size attribute on an <input> element must be a whole number greater than zero, so size="0" is invalid.

size sets the visible width of a text field, counted in characters. It applies to the text, search, url, tel, email and password input types. The HTML standard requires a valid non-negative integer greater than zero, and browsers ignore a zero value and render the field at their default width of about 20 characters. Any value that parses to zero, such as 0 or 00, produces this error.

Templates and CMS search modules often write size="0" to mean "no fixed width" and leave the sizing to CSS. The attribute has no such meaning, so the zero only adds an error to the page.

Remove the attribute when CSS sets the width of the field, or set it to the number of characters that should be visible, such as size="30". The size attribute does not limit how much text the user can type; maxlength does that.

Invalid example

<form action="/search">

<label for="q">Search</label>

<input type="text" id="q" name="q" size="0">

</form>

Valid example

<form action="/search">

<label for="q">Search</label>

<input type="text" id="q" name="q" size="30">

</form>