12407 2011-03-31 21:34:40 +0000 input type="image" and "name" attribute 2011-08-04 05:01:52 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified All All RESOLVED INVALID P2 normal --- 1 luca.tomat ian jackalmage mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 47084 0 luca.tomat 2011-03-31 21:34:40 +0000 Hello, in the HTML standard (the one web-developers read) http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.4 you state that the input element has a "name" attribute and since the type="image" is a subclass it is reasonable to expect it present there too. But in the implementation standard (the one web-browser-developers read) http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#constructing-the-form-data-set (point 3.3) the "name" attribute is excluded. Here we have two standard documents in contraddiction with each other. Which one is right? Please see this bug report too: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583211 47085 1 jackalmage 2011-03-31 21:44:28 +0000 HTML4 is an obsolete standard. Don't read it anymore - use the HTML5 standard, or the developers view of it <http://developers.whatwg.org/>. In any case, I have no idea what you're talking about re: <input type=image> and @name. Point 3.3 in the algorithm you link to explains precisely how to deal with the 'name' attribute on <input type=image> when constructing the form data to be submitted. If there is a problem that I'm somehow missing, can you elaborate? 47086 2 luca.tomat 2011-03-31 22:03:21 +0000 Point 3.3 says that the name attribute should be converted in name_x and name_y but it also says to "Skip the remaining substeps for this element" and this means, as i understand it, not to elaborate point 4 which is the point that states the "name" attribute should be sent too. From a server side, when i have a regular "input" tag, i'll receive the "name" field too, but when i have a "input type=image" tag i'll receive only "name_x" and "name_y" but not "name". In the HTML 4.01 standard i linked it doesn't say in any place that when the input type is "image" the "name" attribute should not be sent (together with name_x and name_y). Did this change in HTML5? 47087 3 jackalmage 2011-03-31 22:17:41 +0000 It didn't change; HTML4 was just insufficiently precise. (That's par for the course in HTML4 - *many* things are insufficiently defined.) HTML5 just defines the actual behavior more precisely than HTML4 did. 52480 4 mike 2011-08-04 05:01:52 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1