Re: Making radio buttons without the use of a name element

Hi Ryne,

> I'm trying to uncover a way I can make radio buttons without using the 
> name element, which XHTML1.0 has declared depreciated.  I cannot use CSS 
> to aid - it must be all XHTML strict.  I have yet to find a way to do 
> this on the web, W3 mentions it's depreciated yet dosn't specify any 
> alternative to using the name element.
>
> As of right now I have a bunch of radio buttons with unique ID's, 
> however none of them relates to one another since they don't recognize 
> being in the same group.  Making ID's the same won't work either, as 
> that dosn't validate.

The name attribute is not generally deprecated in XHTML but still allowed 
for form elements [1].

Have a look at this small example validating as XHTML 1.1:

http://www.j-a-b.net/tmp/radio.html
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.j-a-b.net/tmp/radio.html


Yours,

jens


[1] 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_extformsmodule

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Jens Brueckmann
http://www.j-a-b.net/

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