Re: [fw-mvc] Zend Form: I can't seem to set the name attribute!

I have seen form names commonly used in websites but because it's invalid xhtml, I don't use them. If you need to access the form with javascript or CSS, use a class name or ID.

-Hector

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:58 PM, maxarbos <maxarbos@yahoo.com> wrote:

I will have to look back through my code, ut I am almost 100% sure that they
refence the form name attribute.

This is what i am talking about:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_form.asp

I see it's transitional, but it's still widely used.

carlos koch wrote:
>
> I haven't seen anything that would use a form 'name' attribute.  As that
> makes little sense even when thinking about HTML.
> All scripts normally use form id, and input names; or input ids for direct
> manipulation without context of a containing form.
>
> Form name should be undefined, properly.  But if you don't want the page
> to
> validate, or adhere to any standards it could be added.
>
> I think that one should be able to add this (or any) arbitrary attribute
> name, but have a warning issues if it's used unless explicitly set a
> non-conforming state in the library.
>
> Carlos
>
> 2008/12/16 maxarbos <maxarbos@yahoo.com>
>
>>
>> Is this for real?
>>
>> There are 1000s of scripts that reference the form name to do javascript
>> actions and such.
>>
>> How should something that needs a reference to a form name work then?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Matthew Weier O'Phinney-3 wrote:
>> >
>> > -- rollockg <gina-marie.rollock@ntsinteractives.com> wrote
>> > (on Monday, 01 December 2008, 08:17 AM -0800):
>> >>
>> >> I have tried to set the name attribute in Zend Form both by using the
>> >> setName
>> >> and the setAttrib methods. All I get is id="name", but no name
>> attribute.
>> >> I
>> >> am using 1.7.
>> >
>> > The HTML specification does not allow for a "name" attribute for forms.
>> > setName() on the form will set the id (unless you explicitly set the
>> > id) -- which is what you are seeing here. setName() exists so that
>> there
>> > is a consistent API across the Zend_Form classes.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Matthew Weier O'Phinney
>> > Software Architect       | matthew@zend.com
>> > Zend Framework           | http://framework.zend.com/
>> >
>> >
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