Posted by Toby Inkster on 12/11/05 12:18

maraguida wrote:

> <quote src="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.2">
> 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 (".").
> </quote>

Yes, but if you look at the attribute definitions for the INPUT element
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.4>, you'll see that
the name attribute is defined as CDATA, and not a NAME token. The NAME
token type that you've quoted only actually applies to the META element's
name (and http-equiv) attribute.

Thus '<input name="/This\ %is+ $a; ~valid# @name^ |attribute!">' is
valid HTML 4, though it might not be very well supported.

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