On 25 Jan 2012, at 2:23 AM, Tom McDougal wrote: > On this page describing Forms -- > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#submit-format > > -- the first simple example contains an error which caused me much grief. The > two "INPUT" elements include "id" attributes. This is a mistake; "id" is not > a normal attribute for INPUT elements; instead they should be "name". Here is > the exact text (with my comments on the offending lines): > > <FORM action="http://somesite.com/prog/adduser"; method="post"> > <P> > <LABEL for="firstname">First name: </LABEL> > <INPUT type="text" id="firstname"><BR> // should be: > name="firstname" > <LABEL for="lastname">Last name: </LABEL> > <INPUT type="text" id="lastname"><BR> // should be: > name="lastname" > <LABEL for="email">email: </LABEL> > <INPUT type="text" id="email"><BR> > <INPUT type="radio" name="sex" value="Male"> Male<BR> > <INPUT type="radio" name="sex" value="Female"> Female<BR> > <INPUT type="submit" value="Send"> <INPUT type="reset"> > </P> > </FORM> > > > The example under section 17.4.2 correctly uses NAME attributes.
Hi Tom, Thank you for the note. I don't know whether the HTML Working Group is maintaining errata for HTML4 actively these days given their focus on HTML5. Ian > > Tom > > > > > > -- Ian Jacobs ([email protected]) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
