Re: Using switch() to process a set of forms

From: Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:50:56 +0000
Subject: Re: Using switch() to process a set of forms
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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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