PHP automatically generates arrays from these kind of POST/GET keys.
That's probably the main reason.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:58 PM, ricardobeat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That's kind of what I meant to say.
>
> From my understanding, the CDATA rules apply if you are serving XHTML
> as application/xhtml+xml. If you are serving as text/html it is
> implied you are being backwards compatible, so you should go by the
> HTML4 rules where only A-z,0-9,._- characters are allowed.
>
> Anyway I was just being picky. Everybody uses { in class attributes
> for metadata already, and most browsers (even the ones that don't
> support XHTML as application/xml) don't have a problem with that, I
> don't know how far down the chain that becomes a problem (IE5?).
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_8
>
> What I really wanted to say is 'why are these lunatics putting
> brackets in IDs/names? there are plenty of unused/unmeaningful
> characters to choose' ;)
>
> - ricardo
>
> On Oct 21, 4:34 pm, jasonkarns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In XHTML, the name attribute on input (and textarea and select)
> > elements is defined as CDATA not NMTOKEN thus, brackets are legal in
> > name attributes on input elements. It is NOT backwards compatible with
> > HTML, where the character restriction is [a-z][A-Z]-_ and .
> >
> > Further note, the id attribute has it's own separate set of
> > restrictions that are a subset of all HTML attributes.
> >
> >
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-transitional.dt...http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-transitional.dt...http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-transitional.dt.
> ..
> >
> > ~Jason
> >
> > On Oct 21, 12:07 pm, ricardobeat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Brackets are an invalid character in attributes, for XHTML served as
> > > text/html, which I guess accounts for most of jQuery usage anyway.
> > > Looks like someone already updated the docs.
> >
> > > - ricardo
> >
> > > On Oct 20, 11:36 pm, Ariel Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > > We got a ticket about how to select elements by an attribute with
> > > > brackets.
> > > > I replied with the common link to the FAQ and the reporter replied
> > > > that the example in the docs doesn't work.
> >
> > > > I tried that myself, and indeed, that didn't work.
> >
> > > >http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3443
> >
> > > > $('[name=foo[bar]]'); // Doesn't work
> >
> > > > $('[name=foo\\[bar\\]]'); // Should work, but doesn't
> >
> > > > $('[name="foo[bar]"]'); // Does work
> >
> > > > Now... I think the last option is good enough. But we need to update
> > > > the docs.
> >
> > > > Anything to add ?
> > > > Anyone volunteers to update the docs ?
> >
> > > > Cheers
> >
> > > > --
> > > > Ariel Fleslerhttp://flesler.blogspot.com/
> >
>
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