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john knight
Courses Plus Student 9,155 PointsI have a 2 question
1st question
when giving an ID to an input element, Are the choices is yours or you name it, Or it's limited?.I mean by limited you have choices to choose from.
2nd question
when you give a name to an input element should it be like this? user_.... or user_etc or what ever after the underscore you can name it what ever you want right?. Or the choices it limited and you choose from it.
2 Answers
Emmanuel Molina
9,268 PointsOn the 2nd point : you can name your input like you want, even without the user_ but :
- often the input name is given by the backend developpers (because it's their scripts who will run most of the operation), frontend developper only use it
- often the name start with an user_ to remind backend developpers to parse it through a security check before using it (because input field are an entry point for XSS attacks)
Rhys Kearns
4,976 PointsWhat i understood from that - Can you make the ID of an element whatever you like or do they have specific names. You can make an ID anything you want usually it has a meaning to it, for example if I had a paragraph which displayed data for video I would call it something like videoData. And for the naming of a input do you mean like <input name="name?"> - if so then it can be anything you want aswell with the ID.
john knight
Courses Plus Student 9,155 PointsThank you Rhys kearns