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Because of the potential confusion that arises from having to escape the
ampersands in the URL, server implementers are encouraged to also ac-
cept the semicolon as a parameter separator. You might want to check
the documentation to see whether your server honors this convention.
9.2.5. The target Attribute
It is possible to redirect the results of a form to another window or
frame. Simply add the
target
attribute to your
<form>
tag and provide
the name of the window or frame to receive the results.
Like the
target
attribute used in conjunction with the
<a>
tag, you can
use a number of special names with the
target
attribute in the
<form>
tag to create a new window or to replace the contents of existing win-
dows and frames. [
The target Attribute for the <a> Tag, 11.7.1
]
9.2.6. The id, name, and title Attributes
The
id
attribute lets you attach a unique string label to your form for
reference by programs (applets) and hyperlinks. Before
id
was intro-
duced in HTML 4.0, Netscape used the
name
attribute to achieve similar
effects, although it cannot be used in a hyperlink. To be compatible with
the broadest range of browsers, we recommend that for now you in-
clude both
name
and
id
with
<form>
, if needed. In the future, you should
use only the
id
attribute for this purpose.
The
title
attribute defines a quote-enclosed string value to label the
form. However, it titles only the form segment; its value cannot be used
in an applet reference or hyperlink. [
The id attribute, 4.1.1.4
]
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The title
