- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:31:34 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Wednesday 2003-06-04 14:16 -0400, Peter Foti (PeterF) wrote: > However, I question whether the period should be allowed, as this is the > character used to access properties in JavaScript/ECMAScript: These tokens are used by attributes that have uses other than property access in ECMAScript. If using a certain character doesn't make sense for a certain use, then you don't have to use it. > There does not seem to be any way to access those input items using their > names, because the dot notation: > > document.myform.readme.txt-title document.myform["readme.txt-title"] should work fine. See ECMA-262 Edition 3 section 11.2.1. (If you want to limit yourself to what is required by the DOM HTML spec, though, you should use document.forms["myform"]["readme.txt-title"] .) -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
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