Posted by Jochem Maas on 03/08/05 18:50

Franklin van de Meent wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:19:24 -0600, Greg Dotts
> <listmember@dottsfamily.com> wrote:
>
>>Sure enough Kirk! That was it. Seems strange that you can set a
>>name/value pair on the <form> tag, but they aren't used. Guess they
>>were just kidding ;-)
>
>
> The name attribute is used in javascript, for example when you are
> changing a field value: document.formname.fieldname.value = 'foo';

which is a really crap way of referencing forms - besides given that a
form is a unique entity its better to reference it by id IHMO. in a perfect
world you could just use document.getElementById() and be done with it.

>
> The value attribute does not exist for the form tag, go to
> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_form.asp for a list of allowed
> attributes
>

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