HTML 4 spec section 6.2 says, "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
(".")."XHTML spec section C.8 says, "Note that the collection of legal values in XML 1.0 Section 2.3, production 5 is much larger than that permitted to be used in the ID and NAME types defined in HTML 4. When defining fragment identifiers to be backward-compatible, only strings matching the pattern [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]* should be used. See Section 6.2 of [HTML4] for more information." Could you post links to some of these discussions? On Mar 2, 2:30 pm, Matt Kruse <m...@thekrusefamily.com> wrote: > On Mar 2, 1:32 pm, mkmanning <michaell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > And (if I had a nickel for every time I've said this), using [] in the > > name isn't valid; any framework that requires you to compromise your > > markup is a deficient framework IMO. > > It is most certainly valid to use "[]" in an input name. See any one > of many discussions on the web on this topic. > > Matt Kruse
