Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/06/06 00:57

Troy Piggins <usenet-0602@piggo.com> wrote:

> I'm having a problem because of this

It's hard to see what "this" is here. You quoted my entire message, but
your question does not seem to relate to anything in it.

> - I have a form that is not
> working correctly when I try to conform with strict xhtml by using
> "id" instead of "name", but works fine but doesn't conform
> (according to the w3c validator) if I use "name".

You didn't post the URL, and you didn't say _where_ you use "name" and
why. The odds are that you are using scripting and use "name" in <form>
element in order to be able to refer to a form in JavaScript. The
modern way is document.getElementById("foo"), for <form ... id="foo">.
Besides, for a page containing a single form, the very old way
document.forms[0] works in practice, and doesn't need "name".

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