UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming HTML, CSS, and JavaScript how can I access >form< id attr from javascript? [XHTML]

XHTML wants id attr instead of name attr for some elements;

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4.10 The elements with 'id' and 'name' attributes

HTML 4 defined the name attribute for the elements a, applet, form, frame, iframe, img,
and map. HTML 4 also introduced the id attribute. Both of these attributes are designed to be
used as fragment identifiers.

In XML, fragment identifiers are of type ID, and there can only be a single attribute of type ID
per element. Therefore, in XHTML 1.0 the id attribute is defined to be of type ID. In order to
ensure that XHTML 1.0 documents are well-structured XML documents, XHTML 1.0 documents
MUST use the id attribute when defining fragment identifiers, even on elements that historically
have also had a name attribute. See the HTML Compatibility Guidelines [p.23] for information on
ensuring such anchors are backwards compatible when serving XHTML documents as media
type text/html.

Note that in XHTML 1.0, the name attribute of these elements is formally deprecated, and will be
removed in a subsequent version of XHTML.

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i can use document.formname but document.formid is not working... I searched js refs, but couldnt find this

My suggestion (it's only a suggestion) is to use HTML instead of XHTML. I know it's like taking a step backwards, but I have my reasons.

1. HTML still works fine, and is still supported by all browsers.
2. XHTML seems like more of a hassle than it's worth, because you can still attain perfect standards compliance using HTML in strict mode.
3. When is XML coming? My guess is that it won't be soon enough for us to benefit from it.
4. HTML is a web standard. It isn't going anywhere for at least a few more years, so use it.

you are right. but...
I want to use it, if I can you cant do some nice things, if you want to be strict ... But is is a good thing in my opinion