FP2000: Cannot Validate Form Field if Name Has Invalid Character

• Microsoft FrontPage 2000

SUMMARY

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 the following message:

   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 

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.

Additional query words: validate form field 2000RTMPublic front page

Keywords          : kbdta fpedit 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo 

Last Reviewed: July 1, 1999