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Do you know the maximum number of form elements that can be used in a web page?

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Jun 18.2007

I’m trying to just send a form that has many checkboxes and hiddens objects to another page and try to read they value, but i get an error that says “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage” so i was wondering if the problem was that there were too many form elements, is there is a maximum number of form elements that can be used in a web page? does anyone know? also, does any one know if the name of a form object has to have a format? i some times uses input objects with “-” in the name an also receive error messages. ?

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@KDLAJun 18.2007 — Without your code, it's hard to tell what the problem is. To my knowledge, there isn't a cap on form elements. Your display problem could be attributed to some missing tag or a javascript/script call that is not functioning correctly.

You should use names with a meaning, and for reference to the <label> tag you are hopefully using for accessibility reasons. Those names shouldn't contain spaces or punctuation.

Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.9
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@felgallJun 18.2007 — As long as you use method="POST" you can have as many form fields as you like. Using method="GET" you will run into the URL length limit if you have too many fields. How many then depends on their names and the amount of input - one textarea with a couple of thousand characters of input would be too many fields.
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@lupix_qroauthorJun 18.2007 — Thank you!!!

That was exactly the problem, i didn't specify any method :o , as soon as i put method="POST" my page started working fine. Thank you! ?
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