Posted by Andy Hassall on 08/31/07 20:21

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:03:45 +0200, "Fabio" <znt.fabio@virgilio.it> wrote:

>ELINTPimp wrote:
>
>> Do a search on this group for select+array
>
>Ok, I thank you to let me lost time searching for this *complex* solution
>(ah, select+multiple, not select+array) that is
>
>name="list[]"
>
>and not
>
>name="list"
>
>Good, this works... also if the "[]" is not valid in html4 name attribute :)

It is valid.

>http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-name
>
>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 (".").

The name attribute is not of type NAME, see the DTD (and previous
discussions).

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-name-INPUT

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