hey Rich, please see here for more information...
http://mootools.lighthouseapp.com/projects/2706/tickets/392-method-selecting-element-by-name-in-ie-6
On Oct 6, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Rich V wrote:
I posted example code:
http://paste.mootools.net/m3c8fb3ce
and live demo of behavior:
http://commonquill.org/
I might be misunderstanding how this is supposed to work, but
everything I see says $('option) should refer to the element with the
ID="option"
In IE, it will accept an item with name="option" if it is the only
item in the document, or if it comes before an element with ID =
"option"
If Firefox, id="option" is always accepted as the value irregardless
of the order. If there is nothing with a id=, nothing is returned.
That's all the tech info I have on the behavior. In practical terms,
this affected my development of a Joomla component where IE wasn't
returning an appropriate ajax response (it was returning a different
component). The current or intended component is set consistently by
using $option in Joomla. So one with a name overrided mine with an
id. The more interesting one, was that I was submitting a text field
named keywords for a search function. This was overriden in IE by
<meta name="keywords" and returning undefined for $
('keywords').value
