FAQ Topic - My element is named myselect[] , how do I access it?

[FAQ server]

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FAQ Topic - My element is named myselect[] , how do I
access it?
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Form controls with any "illegal" characters can be accessed with
` formref.elements["myselect[]"] ` - The bracket characters,
amongst others, are illegal in ID attributes and JavaScript
identifiers, so you should try to avoid them as browsers may
handle them incorrectly.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...s/elements.asp

http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6408-10/form.htm

http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_not....html#FAQN4_25
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[OmegaJunior]

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:00:01 +0100, FAQ server <ja********@dotinternet.be>
wrote:

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FAQ Topic - My element is named myselect[] , how do I
access it?
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Form controls with any "illegal" characters can be accessed with
` formref.elements["myselect[]"] ` - The bracket characters,
amongst others, are illegal in ID attributes and JavaScript
identifiers, so you should try to avoid them as browsers may
handle them incorrectly.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...s/elements.asp

http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6408-10/form.htm

http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_not....html#FAQN4_25

(...) The bracket characters,
amongst others, are illegal in ID attributes and JavaScript
identifiers, (...)

Correct according to:
'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/html401/types.html#type-cdata

Maybe that should change? Maybe the browsers should grow up?
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-form...ngFormControls
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[Richard Cornford]

OmegaJunior wrote:

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:00:01 +0100, FAQ server wrote:

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>(...) The bracket characters,
amongst others, are illegal in ID attributes and JavaScript
identifiers, (...)

Correct according to:

Is that supposed to be an instruction?

In what way is the factual statement you cite above in need of
correction?

'ID and NAME tokens must ...

<snip>

In a javascript FAQ, if any rues that determine the legal character set
are to be cited it would make more sense to be citing the rules for a
javascript Identifier than an HTML ID attribute. In either case the
result would excessive for a "quick answer" in the FAQ.

Richard.