Re: square brackets in form names violate HTML specs?
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:15:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: square brackets in form names violate HTML specs? | ||
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* Thus wrote Eugene Lee (list-php@fsck.net):
> Something I've noticed in PHP is a proliferation of code like this:
>
> <input name="stuff[title]" value="" type="text"
> size="40">
>
> According to the specs, the square brackets in "stuff[title]" are
> technically illegal.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.2
Yes, this is correct. The way to properly do it would be to set
set your name as:
<input name="stuff%5Btitle%5D" value="" type="text"
size="40">
Curt
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