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FP2000: Cannot Validate Form Field if Name Has Invalid Character

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This article was previously published under Q205545

For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194283� (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194283/EN-US/ ) .
For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 and earlier version of this article, see 184411� (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184411/EN-US/ ) .

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Summary

If the Name property of a form field contains an invalid character and you attempt to use form field validation on that field, the following message appears:
This control's name is not a valid identifier for scripting languages. Consequently, any script that FrontPage generates may not work properly.

Before specifying validation criteria, please change the control's name so that it starts with a letter, and subsequent characters are letters (A-Z and a-z), digits (0-9), or underscores ("_").

Note: the letters must be ASCII; extended characters are not allowed.

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More information

The scripting language used by FrontPage does not recognize spaces or extended characters (such as /, \, *, &, @, and so forth) as valid characters for a form field name. If you use any of these characters in the Name property of a form field, Form field validation will not work.

To remove the invalid characters or spaces from the form field names, follow these steps:
  1. Open the page in the Page View of FrontPage
  2. Double-click the form field that you want to modify.

    This will Open the form field properties dialog box (Example: Text Box Properties)
  3. In the Name box, type a name that contains alphanumeric characters, such as A-Z, a-z, 0-9, or the underscore character ("_"). The name must start with a letter.

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Keywords: KB205545, kbinfo

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Article Info
Article ID : 205545
Revision : 1
Created on : 10/1/2001
Published on : 10/1/2001
Exists online : False
Views : 351