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- option 1
- option 2
- option 3
These have id and name tags of id="option[1]", id="option[2]", id="option[3]" and name="option[1]", name="option[3]", name="option[3]" so that I can use the html label tag and attach a label to each checkbox via for="option[1]", etc.
This seems to work perfectly in terms of passing me an array of values upon submission, and the labels are all properly tied to the checkboxes... my problem is validation.
I know it's not a big deal, but would love this doc, as complicated as it is, to validate. The error I get is:
character "[" is not allowed in the value of forIf I remove the [] from the for attribute of the labels, they don't tie in with the inputs...
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
form {
width: 200px; margin: 5%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form action="">
<fieldset>
<legend>Check Boxes</legend>
<input type="checkbox" id="option1" />
<label for="option1">Options 1<br /></label>
<input type="checkbox" id="option2" />
<label for="option2">Option 2<br /></label>
<input type="checkbox" id="option3" />
<label for="option3">Option 3</label>
</fieldset>
</form>
<!--##########
I have an XHTML 1.1 strict document that has a number of checkboxes in it that are all linked together(the user can select multiple options), ie:
- option 1
- option 2
- option 3These have id and name tags of id="option[1]", id="option[2]", id="option[3]" and name="option[1]",
name="option[3]", name="option[3]" so that I can use the html label tag and attach a label to each checkbox via for="option[1]", etc.
This seems to work perfectly in terms of passing me an array of values upon submission, and the labels are all properly tied to the checkboxes... my problem is validation.
I know it's not a big deal, but would love this doc, as complicated as it is, to validate. The error I get is:
character "[" is not allowed in the value of for
If I remove the [] from the for attribute of the labels, they don't tie in with the inputs...
-->
</body>
</html>
the checkboxes are created via PHP
Then would it be practical, or even possible, to replace brackets with ascii characters in the HTML?
It sounds like you will have to handle as a PHP solution. It's a PHP problem.?
First, here's how things are happening right now:
User hits form page, php goes to db and grabs options, display them to the user.
User selects a few of these options, which get sent via POST to php. PHP then grabs the options, which were passed as an an array because of the [], and can easily loop through them and insert them back into db.
If I go with some other characters, say id="option1" instead of id="option[1]", it's no problem on the generation side to loop through and do this of course, but on the processing side, unless I am missing something, I'm left doing something along these lines:
- Get POST data
- Loop through POST array, pattern testing each passed element to see if it starts with 'option'. Store matches in an array of items that do have this pattern
- Foreach this temp array and store the values in the db.
Sound about right?
<input name="option[1]" id="option1" ...
<input name="option[2]" id="option2" ...
<input name="option[3]" id="option3" ...
This way, when the form is submitted, you will still have an "option" array, and on the page each input can be referenced with the id.
Thanks Fotiman!
