Form validation syntax error, cannot figure out - Page 2

AndrewGSW · 12-13-2012, 06:42 PM

Code:

<br/>Email Address: <br /> &nbsp; <input type="text" id="email"> <br />

id= should be name= to make your code fragment work. Personally I tend to use both id and name and give them the same value (except for grouped elements - radio buttons, etc.. - because ids must be unique).

Old Pedant · 12-14-2012, 01:56 AM

Yep, Andrew saw it.

Too much copy, not enough editing on my part. Should have been.

Code:

            <br/>Email Address: <br /> &nbsp; <input type="text" name="email"> <br />

But I disagree with Andrew: I *NEVER* give an ID to form fields unless there is some very good reason. Granted, 99% of everything I do with <form>s has to interact with server-side code, and fields without names are useless for that purpose. But even so, you don't need an ID to reference any <form> field, so why bother?

Almost the only exception is when I use <label for="someID"> in which case of course there must be a matchind ID. But even then, I tend to use <label> with the for= property.