Microsoft KB Archive/184411

= FP: Cannot Validate Form Field if Name Has Invalid Character =

Article ID: 184411

Article Last Modified on 2/20/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 1.0 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q184411



For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see 205545.

For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194283.



SYMPTOMS
If the Name property of a form field contains an invalid character and you attempt to use form field validation on that field, you will receive one of the following messages depending on the version of FrontPage you are using.

FrontPage 97
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.

FrontPage for the Macintosh 1.0
This control's name is not a valid identifier for scripting languages. Use ASCII letters, digits, or underscores.



CAUSE
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. Form field validation will not work if you use any of these characters in the Name property of a form field.



RESOLUTION
Remove the invalid characters or spaces from the form field names.


 * 1) Click the form field that you want to modify.
 * 2) On the Edit menu, click Form Field Properties.
 * 3) In the Name box, type a name that contains alphanumeric characters, such as A-Z, a-z, or 0-9 or the underscore character ("_"). The name must start with a letter.

Additional query words: 97 validate form field

Keywords: kbprb KB184411

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