Discovery of the day : FF rewrites forms!!??? 1

[Sleidia]

Hi,

I had a form that was functionning properly on all major browsers until recently.

So, after some long investigation, I found out that FireFox rewrites my HTML by changing this :

<input type="file" name="my_file[0][folder][0]">
<input type="file" name="my_file[0][folder][1]">

to this :

<input type="file" name="my_file_0_folder_0">
<input type="file" name="my_file_0_folder_1">

No wonder why my PHP code can't parse it anymore

Why do they do this now?

 

[BigRed1212]

I don't think a square bracket is allowed in a name according to the HTML spec:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.2

If that is the case, then Firefox may be doing something to replace an illegal character or something in an effort to be standards compliant. Just a guess.

 

[Sleidia]

Well, after two wasted hours, I found out that it was my PHP code that did the HTML change

Sorry for being so stupiiiiiiiiiiiiid

As for the HTML spec, brackets being very useful for complex applications forms, I don't see why they don't make it a legit thing to do.

Thanks for your time anyway!

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I seem to remember the rules on what characters are allowed as part of the NAME and ID attributes was changed from the HTML to the XHTML specs, so it would really depend on your DOCTYPE...

Dan



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