- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:38:35 +0100
- To: Brian Beck <exogen@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On 30 Mar 2008, at 17:06, Brian Beck wrote: > >> You can't have form controls outside a form which do anything useful >> without a dependancy on JavaScript (which is generally a bad idea). > > Well, some elements, e.g. <button type="button">, exist to be scripted > and aren't functional even within a form. :) That doesn't make using them a good idea ;) >> Having an element with a name that is the same as the id of another >> element can cause problems in some browsers (Internet Explorer in >> particular since it has a tendency of treating name in the same was >> as id, to the extent of returning named elements with the >> getElementById method). > > Ah, that's what I was wondering. I'll look into it -- know if this > happens for any element with a `name` attribute? I thought it might > just happen for `form` elements. Any element. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/
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