All Browsers assign form data variable names according to the name attribute, not id.
PHP uses square brackets as a shortcut to automagically build arrays from the request data. Like Karl said, this is illegal in HTML, and still seems not allowed in XHTML according to http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PER-xml-20080205/#sec-common-syn (XHTML is XML, remember). That section has a paragraph beginning "The ASCII symbols and punctuation marks, along with a fairly large group of Unicode symbol characters, are excluded from names...", which leads me to believe square brackets are still disallowed in XHTML names. The allowed unicode ranges given exclude the ascii range #x5B to #x7F (square brackets are #x5B and #x5D). Assuming I'm reading the spec correctly. Most of the expanded characters in XML seem to be in a much higher range than ascii. Personally, I wish PHP didn't do this with square brackets. On Feb 7, 2008 4:29 PM, Dave Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK - this is the best I could come up: > > function $$(selector, context){ > return jQuery(selector.replace(/(\[|\])/g, '\\$1'), > context) > } > > $$('#contact[email]') > > It adds to the global namespace (so won't work with prototype for > example, which also uses $$) but it does do trick. > > Thoughts? >
