Re: question

From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:14:15 -0800 To: Bryan <d.jon@verizon.net> Message-Id: <5A640B5E-DCA9-4465-8BC8-CF4A652D7B04@w3.org> Cc: site-comments@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 7 December 2009 10:46:12 GMT

On 7 Nov 2009, at 3:05 AM, Bryan wrote:

> in the form tag or input tag can the "name" be a number as opposed  
> to letters.
>
> <form name="aBc123" action="">

Bryan,

Name attribute values are CDATA (see [1]). I believe the answer to  
your question is "yes" but
you should check the HTML 4 spec for the authoritative answer.

  _ Ian

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-cdata

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