jQuery issue with live click and input named "name"

Question

jQuery live click isn't working form me if form contains input named "name". Changing name to something else helps. Can anyone tell me why that happens?

If there is a field name "named" live click is not working when I click input named "value". If I change name from "name" to "name2" clicking on field named "value" works.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

<script>
$('form[name="prepare"] input[name="value"]').live('click', function(){
    alert('Clicked!');
    return false;
});
</script>

<form name="prepare" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="name" />
    <input type="text" name="value" />
</form>

Answer 1

See original question.

Answer 2

Change the name="prepare" attribute/value pair of the FORM element to id="prepare" and it should work, like so:

  <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  <script>
   $('form#prepare input[name=value]').live('click', function() {
    alert('Clicked!');
    return false;
   });
  </script>
 <form id="prepare" method="post">
  <input type="text" name="name">
  <input type="text" name="value">
 </form>

Answer 3

See original question.

Answer 4

if you address your <form> by id instead of by name the bug disappears:

<form name="prepare" method="post" id="myform">

$('form#myform input[id="value"]').click(function(){

Answer 5

I can do few things to make this work. Still it bothers me what is why that happens.

Answer 6

@Mathias Bynens (Seems like it’s got nothing to do with the input[name="name"], but with the form[name="prepare"].)

Are you sure? Because when I change inputs name to something else it works but when I change name of the form (and selector of course) it isn't working.

Answer 7

html specs:

<form>, name=

Note. This attribute has been included for backwards compatibility. Applications should use the id attribute to identify elements.

Since this attribute is deprecated, jquery may process it incorrectly.