> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 17 September 2002 13:20
> 
> Hmm
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-name
> 
> 'ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be
> followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"),
> underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").'
> 
> Seems to me, the rules for valid IDs & NAMEs are the same...

But the value of the name attribute of a form element is not a NAME token.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-name-FORM

'name = cdata [CI] 
'This attribute names the element so that it may be referred to from style
sheets or scripts.'

followed by the note I quoted previously.

On the other hand, the value of the id attribute *is* a NAME token, so is
restricted as per your quote above.

Cheers!

Mike

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