In IE8 this
input.attr("name","exam.exam_Normal['" +normal_id_unique + "'].boolean_v");
Outputs this only in IE8....
<input propdescname="exam.exam_Normal['1'].boolean_v" type="hidden" value="0"/>
WHY WHY?? Why everywhere are problems... why
4 Answers
This error only shows up in the IE8 developer tools (F12) - in the DOM the name attribute will still be correctly set. See this post for more.
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The name attribute you are assigning is invalid looks strange.
I think what you may really want to do is to use the actual variable value:
input.attr("name",exam.exam_Normal[normal_id_unique].boolean_v);
Provided that variable really exists in your script.
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GorillaApe
well i removed the ' ' and worked as i want:) thank you for the advice
bobince
The HTML
name attribute's content model is CDATA, not a NAME token (which is used for IDs). It is valid to include [] in name, and almost every PHP application does.Don't worry, just like said bobince that attribute name displays only in the IE8 developer tool. The real DOM attribute will be exactely the attribute you assigned.
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Outputs this only in IE8....
How do you cause that to be ‘output’? Normally you only see propDescName (and submitName) when debugging the DOM in the developer tools. It is an internal detail of IE8-running-in-IE7-mode's implementation of the name attribute, that should not normally be visible to scripts.
(Setting the name attribute has notorious problems in IE up to version 7, so it's generally best avoided unless you really know what you're doing. In particular, though it correctly sets the ‘control name’ used to submit the field value, it won't affect radio-input grouping, frame targeting, or update the form[.elements] lookup.)
propdescnamewhen you try to putname?