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Mar 30.2011

I saw this on a website, and I’m confused as to what the possible purpose could be for this.

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<input id=”myIDNAME” name=”myIDNAME” type=”hidden” value=”0″ />
<input id=”myIDNAME” name=”myIDNAME” type=”checkbox” value=”0″ />
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First of all, I thought repeating an ID would return an error.

Does anyone know a possible purpose for this?

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@svidgenMar 30.2011 — To the best of my knowledge, ID's must be unique to nodes. So, the code you posted is, as you suspect, invalid. The browser won't necessarily choke on it, but you'll only be able to refer to a single one of the nodes. Chrome default to the first one -- not sure what other browsers do ...

Definitely bad practice in the very least.
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@irf2kauthorMar 30.2011 — Ye, I thought so. It was just so odd to see on what was an otherwise well designed and neatly coded site, that I thought I might be missing something.

Thanks
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@svidgenMar 30.2011 — Hmm ... what's the url?
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