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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics The Textarea Element

Arikaturika Tumojenko
Arikaturika Tumojenko
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Posted by Arikaturika Tumojenko
Arikaturika Tumojenko
8,897 Points

Understanding the values for the "name" attribute.

Are all the values used until now in the video pre estabilished or we could give the attribute name any value we want (<input type="text" id="name" name="threehouse_form"> for example)?

4 Answers

Alexander Peschel
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Alexander Peschel
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Alexander Peschel
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Alexander Peschel
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The first element in the document with an ID matching the value of the for attribute is the labeled control for this label element.https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input

The name attribute is for fetching values after submitting the form.

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
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Hi there,

Yes generally we can give the name attribute any value we want.

There are one or 2 caveats in the way the attribute is used, For example the name attribute works with the label "for" attribute and the names must be the same but to my knowledge there's no limit to what values you could feasibly use. :p-)

Arikaturika Tumojenko
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Arikaturika Tumojenko
Arikaturika Tumojenko
8,897 Points

Ok, I understand. Still haven't got to labels so I think the answer will become more clear later. Thx :).

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
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I think Jonathan is right, as long as the name attribute is a string value, you should be able to make it whatever you want. You'll just want your label for attribute to match as he said.

You'll just need a matching attribute to grab the form data on the server side.