Web programming and a different "type" problem

[Michael Ströder]

Jon Ribbens wrote:
> e.g. <input type="checkbox" name="foo*">
                                       ^^^
Is the * guaranteed to work?

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.4

name        CDATA

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-cdata

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ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed 
by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), 
colons (":"), and periods (".").
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Ciao, Michael.