[TYPO3-project-formidable] FORMIdable & XHTML

[Jerome Schneider]

Hello Manuel, Luc and Oliver

Do you think that the trailing _ is needed in the id when subtituting 
brackets by underscores ?

tx_myformid[myrdtname]

becomes: 2 options:

1) tx_myformid_myrdtname_
2) tx_myformid_myrdtname

Jerome



Oliver Klee a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Luc Muller schrieb:
>> I'm not sure if I'm right... but... this calendar do not resepct 
>> accessibility standards... to have an accessible date you should use 
>> a text field where user inputs himself the date.
> 
> Well, the date field already offers a text field which is perfectly
> accessible. If a screenreader is used, the alt attribute for the date
> picker is needed so that the screenreader can output something other
> than the file name - even if the alt attribute contains only a hint that
> this is a link to a JavaScript-based date picker that cannot be used for
> screen readers. In addition, the alt attribute would remove another
> validation error.
> 
> About the name and id attributes: For name attributes (which are needed
> for naming the form data), [ and ] are perfectly valid. For the IDs
> (which are needed for CSS selectors and for getElementById and for
> providing targets for label tags), [ and ] are not valid and in some of
> my tests created actual problems when trying to use them in CSS ID
> selectors. Luckily, the name and id attribute can be different. As
> manual proposed, replacing [ and ] by _ in the id attributes (but not
> the name attributes) to me sounds like the way to go.
> 
> About validation: I often use a HTML validator to check the validity of
> my extension HTML templates. When there is lots of noise in the
> validator output (eg. missing alt attributes or [] in id attributes),
> this makes it harder for me to spot the actual errors. When there is no
> validation noise, I can just rely on the green check mark of the HTML
> validator extension in Firefox - which is a lot faster than always
> having to open the validator output and sift through the messages.
> 
> Manuel, maybe you can post a patch that fixes the ID attributes?
> 
> If I can be of any help, please just ask.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Oliver