KB205545 - FP2000: Cannot Validate Form Field if Name Has Invalid Character

Article ID: 205545

Article Last Modified on 10/1/2001

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q205545

For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194283.
For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 and earlier version of this article, see 184411.

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.

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:

Open the page in the Page View of FrontPage
Double-click the form field that you want to modify.

This will Open the form field properties dialog box (Example: Text Box Properties)
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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