Help with Dreamweaver Validate Form Behavior

Question

Hello,
I'm attempting to use Dreamweaver to validate form fields. This would work quite well except for in this case I'm using custom form code which is coming from Salesforce.com. The issue has been that the Salesforce.com web-to-lead form comes with "name" attributes on every form field item. If I change these names to make the validation look nicer, for example from first_name to First Name, then the web to lead form breaks. Is there another way to utilize Dreamweavers form validation by creating by own names for each form element instead of using "name"? The objective is to give the user something that looks good... like:
First Name is required
Last Name is required
And with the Salesforce custom name fields it ends up looking like:
900000xxxxx213s is required
or
last_name is required
Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

The name attribute of a form cannot contain spaces. That's why the validation behavior breaks.
The Dreamweaver Validate Form behavior is rather crude and well past its sell-by date. Use the Spry Validation widgets instead: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WS267C8659-3AEF-4956-8268-E38CA4CAFAD3a .html.