[eluser]FireStarter[/eluser]
Just seems fairly pointless to me unless anybody has a good reason for it?
You'll see these tools such as PageSpeed from Google complaining about the fact that you have inline styles too, asking you to move these to a stylesheet. Obviously it doesn't really decrease performance in this case but I am a bit OCD on this kind of stuff! Extra elements thrown in? Could do without them... unfortunately it's not worth replacing the form_open() function for the application as it's not a very basic function.
Anyway no big deal, it's not going to cause a problem being there. Just seems like something that could (or should?) be removed