Re: Praise, validate decorator and formencode/javascript - Thomas Sidwick - com.googlegroups.pylons-discuss

6 messages in com.googlegroups.pylons-discussRe: Praise, validate decorator and fo...

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Martin	17 Aug 2006 08:06
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Thomas Sidwick	21 Aug 2006 01:32
Martin	21 Aug 2006 08:11

Subject:	Re: Praise, validate decorator and formencode/javascript
From:	Thomas Sidwick (tsid...@gmail.com)
Date:	08/21/2006 01:32:48 AM
List:	com.googlegroups.pylons-discuss

On 8/17/06, Martin <mart...@lycos.de> wrote:

3) Any JavaScript gurus here? I have read that it is not allowed to have the characters "-" and "." in JS identifiers. That only concerns the "id" of elements, right? So, the following form element would be okay, I hope: <input id="editTag" name="tags-3" type="text" value="" /> The character "-" only occurs in the name, but not in the id, so there should not be any problems? (Background: Right now I'd simply like to use the formencode nestedVariables functionality, but later on I might like to add some JavaScript... therefore it would be good to plan ahead and avoid possible conflicts later on)

I think you have got that the wrong way around.

The id attribute is used mainly by css. The name attribute is used to create the form response + creates a variable in the javascript name space.

Personally I try to keep id + name identical on form elements to avoid confusion.

I would avoid using .'s or other mathmatical symboles in either id, name, class or any other attribute that is used as a hook into another language, I can't imagine that css reacts well to having a . in the middle of a class attribute.

hth, Tom