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Asked: 2026-05-24T21:53:26+00:00

I am new to web development and I have been taking a class through

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I am new to web development and I have been taking a class through Lynda.com on how to use Dreamweaver CS5. I try to spend most of my time hand coding and use the Dreamweaver tutorial as an intro to HTML. However, I have noticed that when I do use Dreamweaver to enter certain elements in, such as forms, it uses the “name” attribute and not the “id” attribute. From what I have learned, “name” has been abandoned in favor of “id”. Is this the case for all tags, such as forms? If so, how can I set Dreamweaver to use “id” in this case, instead of “name”?

Please forgive me if this has already been answered. I searched for it, and did not come across it, but since I am new to Stackoverflow, it might just be that I didnt search correctly.

Thanks so much!

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  1. Editorial Team

    In this case, Dreamweaver is correct. For a server-side programming language to process the form data (as POST or GET data), each form element must have a name=”” attribute set.

    You can still manually type id=”” in the HTML if you need it, but Dreamweaver autogenerating name attributes for form elements is very sensical if the form is to be used.

    HTML

    <input type="text" name="message1" id="styleme" value="Hey there!" />

    CSS

    #styleme { font-size: 18px; }

    PHP

    <?php echo $_POST['message1']; ?>
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