Re: form.ssubmit() nor submitting all the elements

Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Date	2013-02-20 06:54 -0800
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Subject	Re: form.ssubmit() nor submitting all the elements
From	cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com>

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On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:31:18 PM UTC-8, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> 2013-02-20 8:51, cerr wrote:
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> > I havwe a form at http://www.quaaoutlodge.com/mobile/book.html but
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> > upon hitting "Check nowww" for some reason not all the forms esp
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> > 'name' and 'contact_num' are not submitted, why not I'm wondering.../
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> Those input elements lack the name="..." attribute. By HTML specs, only 
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> controls that have the name attribute can be "successful", i.e. 
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> contribute to the form data set. So change e.g.
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> <input id="name" size="10">
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> to
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> <input id="name" name="name" size="10">
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> Many people have misunderstood statements about the name attribute being 
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> deprecated. In HTML 4, it is deprecated for img and form elements. But 
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> not for controls like input, where it constitutes an essential part of 
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> functionality.
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Yep, that was it. Thanks for your help, Yucca!

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form.ssubmit() nor submitting all the elements cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 22:51 -0800
  Re: form.ssubmit() nor submitting all the elements "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-02-20 09:31 +0200
    Re: form.ssubmit() nor submitting all the elements cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 06:54 -0800

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