form is not being hidden when it have an input with name attr value set as "style"

[davidbuzatto@…]

Using this:

$(function(){
   $("form").hide();
});

The code above works for this:

<form>
    <input id="foo" name="bar"/>
</form>

But not works for this:

<form>
    <input id="foo" name="style"/>
</form>

[David Buzatto <davidbuzatto@…>]

Here is a jsFiddle with some tests:  http://jsfiddle.net/davidbuzatto/7P2AL/

[anonymous]

this is spawned by  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11864899/hiding-form-tag-in-jquery

the behaviour can be reproduced by setting either id or name to "style"

[timmywil]

I'm inclined to say wontfix here. Let's see what the core team thinks.

[gnarf]

I'm pretty sure this is a "cantfix" not a "wontfix" - it is eerily similar to #1414 which rick and I spent a lot of time trying to find a nice way around... Either way, this is a DOM Lint issue  http://kangax.github.com/domlint/ test #1

Names of form controls are populated as properties of "parent" form element and might conflict with "actual" properties of a form element (either own or inherited via "interface chain") Interfaces tested against are HTMLFormElement, HTMLElement, Element, Node, EventTarget, ElementCSSInlineStyle as well as Object.prototype

[dmethvin]

Yeah I agree, sometimes we can work around these but I don't think so in this case--especially in IE6/7. Also it's not a jQuery-specific issue and there's no obvious place that the jQuery docs can mention this. Web devs just have to know that some words cannot be used as form names. Sucks.