[thelist] vbscript: form values disappearing when I don't use 'name'

[kasimir-k]

Canfield, Joel scribeva in 18/04/2006 17:30:
> I'm trying to get away from using both 'name' and 'id' for form fields.
> but without 'name', the field values are blank/missing/something like
> that.

As they should be.

 From http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#form-controls
"A control's "control name" is given by its name attribute."

So if you want to receive the value of a form field when the form is 
submitted, then you must use the 'name' attribute.

One thing worth noting here is that your form elements don't necessarily 
have same value for 'id' and 'name' - 'id' must be unique in the 
document, whereas multiple form elements may share name.

.k