Hi Klaus > Betreff: [jQuery] Re: different name and id issue? [...]
> This is a known IE bug. Id and the name attribute share the > same namespace in IE giving you the (unexpected) result > you're talking of (getElementById gives you the first > occurence of an element with the given id or name). I wonder > what the developers were thinking... > > jQuery has fixed this by the way when using an id selector. I didn't except anything else ;-) [...] > > id="form-widgets-lastname" name="form.widgets.lastname"" > > > > Is this acceptable or is there any reason using another naming > > convention for element ids and names? > > I haven't seen periods in name attributes yet, but they are > allowed per HTML spec. Another option would be to use the underscore: > > id="form-widgets-lastname" name="form_widgets_lastname" > > What is more important is to avoid that a name attribute > matches an id, which both variants do provide. That's good to know. Thanks a lot Klaus Regards Roger Ineichen _____________________________ END OF MESSAGE
