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LuckyLuke
LuckyLuke

Reputation: 49067

Syntax of name attributes in HTML input elements

I have tried Ruby (and Rails) earlier and when I created the views I used a syntax like this in the input fields:

<input name="fruit[name]" .../>

<input name="fruit[traits][]" .../>

and so on. The first one would give me a fruitkey in the params hash and so on. Now that I have shifted to Node.js and Express I can use the same syntax in the name attribute and I get a nice object fruit in the request objects body property (using the bodyParser middelware).

Now I wonder, is it written in the spec that the given formats in the name attribute should create such a structure in the request params/body property? Or is this something that everyone just do?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 126

Answers (1)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943217

Now I wonder, is it written in the spec that the given formats in the name attribute should create such a structure in the request params/body property?

No

Or is this something that everyone just do?

It started in PHP. A few other form parsers have copied the behaviour.

Upvotes: 3

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