Re: [PHP] ID vs NAME in different browsers

2006-01-28 Thread Niels
On Saturday 28 January 2006 18:20, David Hall wrote: > Uh, sorry to disappoint, but that's a description of the form element, > not of the input element or select input. Right. > In fact, if you go to > http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/interact/forms.html#h-17.4.2 > , you will see

Re: [PHP] ID vs NAME in different browsers

2006-01-28 Thread David Hall
Niels wrote: name = cdata [CI] This attribute names the element so that it may be referred to from style sheets or scripts. Note. This attribute has been included for backwards compatibility. Applications should use the id attribute to identify elements. Uh, sorry to disappoint, but that's

Re: [PHP] ID vs NAME in different browsers

2006-01-28 Thread Niels
On Saturday 28 January 2006 16:47, Jason Petersen wrote: > HTML Forms should always use the NAME attribute to pass values, never ID. > You can use print_r($_REQUEST); at the top of your script to debug. > Thank you for your answer. W3C says: [http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html] nam

Re: [PHP] ID vs NAME in different browsers

2006-01-28 Thread Jason Petersen
On 1/28/06, Niels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: when making an input field for submission from a form, I need to put a > name='something' in it. For CSS I often use an id='something'. Some > browsers apparently submit the field properly if name is missing and id is > present. Others might not. Can an