That's all true, and well. Except. We have apps out "in the wild" that rely
on the id being generated.
As for - to _ in identifiers, I don't remember the exact issue, but there's a
jira for it and it has to do with invalid identifiers, or the - in names
causing problems in some circumstances (the details escape me at the moment,
sorry).
Robert
On Dec 17, 2010, at 12/1710:51 AM , Andreas Andreou wrote:
> It makes sense to me to not output redundant html....
> And if you know the id of the control you can get to its label by
> $$('label[for=' + id + ']')
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 18:35, Blower, Andy <andy.blo...@proquest.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> The change was made in July and doesn't appear to be associated with a JIRA:
>>
>> r931361 | hlship | 2010-04-07 00:01:00 BST
>>
>> Do not render an id attribute for Label components, as they can be
>> identified via their for attribute
>>
>>
>> Yes they can, but it's pretty standard to find tags in the dom via id's,
>> especially when using prototype.
>>
>> Howard, can you explain why this change was necessary, and the thinking
>> behind it.
>>
>> Unfortunately this change has broken our client side validation error
>> messages. We only noticed yesterday. The change immediately before it
>> changed the - to a _ before the 'label' suffix. I'd like to know why this
>> was done before I raise a JIRA.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andy.
>>
>
>
>
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