Form data preview with DOM

I got asked to set this up as a proof of concept for an upcoming project, and it might be helpful to you guys, too:

Previewing collated form data with DOMscripting

The code is a bit wooly at the moment and I will clean it up and explain a bit more if I get the time.
In the meantime, just give it a swirl.

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Jonathan Holst Says:
January 30th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
Looks great.

A minor bug (at least in firefox 1.5) seems to be that an id can’t start with a hyphen—it doesn’t trigger the label action. But that’s really not that important to the code. Good job.
Chris Says:
January 30th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
It is not really important for HTML either, as IDs must start with an alphanumeric character, at least according to the HTML specs for ID

# ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens (“-”), underscores (“_”), colons (“:”), and periods (“.”).

What is the fetish of every framework out there to mess around with IDs? .NET and Spring are both very naughty at that.
Matthijs Says:
February 6th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Looks great Chris. Looking forward to an explanation of the code, hope you’ll find some time.
Thanks.