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Ed Jay wrote:

> Bad or OK...more than one input element with same name,
> but in different forms?

Each form has its own set of fields ("controls"), so you can use the same
name in different forms.

A page may contain any number of forms, but at least a well-designed page
normally has at most one.

> Example:
>
> <form name = "form1"....>
> <input name = "joe"...>
> </form>
>
> <form name = "form2"....>
> <input name = "joe"...>
> </form>

That's not valid in HTML 4.01, which does not allow a name="..." attribute
for a form. (Use id="..." instead and modify your Javascript code
accordingly.) But this is a different issue.

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"Jukka K. Korpela" <> writes:

>> <form name = "form1"....>

[…]

> That's not valid in HTML 4.01, which does not allow a name="..."
> attribute for a form.

I think you are confusing that with HTML 4.0, or maybe XHTML 1.0.

> (Use id="..." instead and modify your Javascript
> code accordingly.)

What script? I didn’t see any. Anyway, name or id shouldn’t really
matter since you can use both to identify the form element node in the
document.forms collection.

Eric Bednarz wrote:

> "Jukka K. Korpela" <> writes:
>
>>> <form name = "form1"....>
>
> […]
>
>> That's not valid in HTML 4.01, which does not allow a name="..."
>> attribute for a form.
>
> I think you are confusing that with HTML 4.0, or maybe XHTML 1.0.

Indeed I was confusing HTML 4.01 with HTML 4.0 here. Yet, the name="..."
attribute is illogical for a <form> element, since this is not about naming
but identification. And the HTML 4.01 spec says:
"Note. This attribute has been included for backwards compatibility.
Applications should use the id attribute to identify elements."
(This applies to name="..." for <form>. Many people have misinterpreted that
it also applies to form fields, but in them, the attribute has a different
meaning and there it is indispensable.)

>> (Use id="..." instead and modify your Javascript
>> code accordingly.)
>
> What script? I didn’t see any.

Lost your crystal ball? I think it's easy to see that when people use <form
name="..." ...>, they do so for scripting. The HTML 4.01 spec says, in the
summary of attributes; "name of form for scripting".

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