Required Fields 1

[ChrissyLoetz]

Hi there, I found a snippet of javascript code to make a field on my form required. It works fine if the field is coded like this: <input type="text" name="sometext"> but if the field is coded like this <input type="text" name="123"> with numbers in the name attribute, the javascript seems to be ignored. I need to use numbers in the name atrribute because I'm populating a database. Is this possible?

 

[kaht]

Is this possible?

No

-kaht

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[BabyJeffy]

Assuming you are working with HTML 4, this would be relevant to you...

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-cdata

You have to start with a letter.

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Jeff

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[tsdragon]

It is entirely possible to start the field name with an alphabetic character and still have a numbered field. Simply concatenate a character to the number when you create the field name, and strip if off when you need just the number. We do things like that all the time.

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