[Bug 15761] New: Incorrect description of the name attribute for the form element

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15761

           Summary: Incorrect description of the name attribute for the
                    form element
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5: The Markup Language (editor: Michael(tm) Smith)
        AssignedTo: mike@w3.org
        ReportedBy: chealer@gmail.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


The description of the form element's name attribute reads:
ⓘ name = string
    The name part of the name/value pair associated with this element for the
purposes of form submission.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/form.html#form.attrs.name

This description is the same as the description of the name attribute of form
input fields, which is right. But it does not apply to the form element itself.

The specification has a correct definition:

The name attribute represents the form's name within the forms collection. The
value must not be the empty string, and the value must be unique amongst the
form elements in the forms collection that it is in, if any.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-form-element

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Received on Saturday, 28 January 2012 16:54:28 UTC