RE: Server Renaming Form Fields

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this was answered last time you asked.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
"CJM" wrote:

I have a bit of code that inserts some extra controls (specifically,
ordinary <input type="hidden" name="MyField"form fields) into an existing
HTML form. However, it is mangling the name & IDs of these controls when
they are rendered:

For example, the PPItemName field is rendered as: <input
name="ctl00$MainBodyContent$PPItemName" type="hidden"
id="ctl00_MainBodyContent_PPItemName" />

Ordinarily, I wouldn't care (and it wouldn't matter either), but this form
is posting to a Paypal server and paypal is expecting particular field
names - so consequently we are having problems.

I can understand that .NET needs to use the ID attribute, but why the name
attribute? The name attribute is important in standard HTML, but I wouldn't
have thought so for .NET.

A workaround would be to use a placeholder, and use .innerHTML to inject
straight HTML inside. But this entire piece of code is already a workaround
for .NETs inability to handle multiple forms, so I thought there must be a
limit to the amount of messing about that I have to do.

Is there a way that I can force the server not to change the name of the
fields?

Thanks in advance...

Chris