i.e.:
<form 1>
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="1">
</form 1>
and
<form 2>
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="2">
</form 2>
Is this allowed and valid?
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41answers:
4
A:
Yes.
More, it is essential if you are dealing with radio button groups.
David Dorward
2010-05-25 17:14:41
Exactly. Or with checkboxes, in which case you can put [] at the end "url[]" and it creates an array to be picked up.
Kerry
2010-05-25 17:15:24
@Kerry — That's a PHPism. Most form handling libraries are quite happy to not have special names for groups of controls.
David Dorward
2010-05-25 17:56:41
Ah, good to know.
Kerry
2010-05-25 18:49:52
+2
A:
Yes -- each will only submit with their respective forms.
If you have them in the same form, one will override the other and it is not valid.
Kerry
2010-05-25 17:14:41
+3
A:
Yes, in your case, it is valid. Consider this:
This is Good
<form name="form1">
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="1">
</form>
<form name="form2">
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="2">
</form>
This is Not Good
<form name="form1">
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="2">
</form>
Web Logic
2010-05-25 17:15:18
It is valid. It will create no confusion for the server side language (even PHP, with its conventions for naming fields that share a name, will consistently and predictably handle multiple inputs which don't use that convention). It will create no confusion for JavaScript (which will present the elements as a collection and **not** ignore one of them). It /might/ create confusion for authors who write code without knowing what they are doing, but it is fine by the spec.
David Dorward
2010-05-25 17:58:00
+1
A:
To test if it is valid or not, creat you page and test at W3C here :
dotNET
2010-05-25 17:23:32