On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, T.J. Crowder wrote: > > Does the HTML5 specification loosen the rules for the valid values in > the name attribute on form elements?
Yes. > The attribute index[2] says the value must be "Text*" with the * > indicating that "...the actual rules are more complicated than indicated > in the table...". In that table, "name" itself is not a link but on the > row "input" is a link to the forms page's name definition[3] which > describes what the name attribute means (and says it can't be blank if > given), but doesn't provide any other rules. Is that really the only > rule? Yes. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
