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input name -- when required

From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 14:48:28 -0400
Message-Id: <200106051846.OAA180480@smtp2.mail.iamworld.net>
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At 02:22 PM 2001-06-05 -0400, Steven McCaffrey wrote:
>The name attribute is apparently involved but not always required.  Are there
preferences in terms of valid HTML4?
>

AG::

For INPUT elements, the rule is

<!-- attribute name required for all but submit and reset -->

It should be used the same way for the BUTTON element, but the DTD comment is
not repeated.

Al

Quote is from the HTML 4.01 specification on the W3C site

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-INPUT>http://www.w3.
org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-INPUT
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