Rails - Apr 2006 - FormTagHelper form names: possible?

Thank you to everybody that has helped me since I signed up. I''m flying
along thanks to you.

I have a question about the FormTagHelper "start_form_tag":
I''ve been
trying to figure out how to get Rails to output a "name" attribute for
my form so I can hook in a Javascript to focus on a field inside of it 
on load, but it doesn''t look like I can do it. I''m not sure
how to read
the API; it doesn''t have any examples. Everything I put into the
command
just appends information to the action after a question mark or gives me 
an error. I''ve tried putting name="myformname" into double
quotes,
single quotes, curly braces, brackets, you name it, but nothing works. 
I''m beginning to think I should just code it in with HTML and forget 
using the FormTagHelpers for form declarations entirely if I need any 
attributes except "action" and "method".

Anybody know if I''m right or wrong here?

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> I have a question about the FormTagHelper "start_form_tag":
I''ve been
> trying to figure out how to get Rails to output a "name"
attribute for
> my form so I can hook in a Javascript to focus on a field inside of it
> on load, but it doesn''t look like I can do it. I''m not
sure how to read
> the API; it doesn''t have any examples. Everything I put into the
command
> just appends information to the action after a question mark or gives me
> an error.
<...>
> Anybody know if I''m right or wrong here?
start_form_tag accepts two hashes - one for url_for and second one for
html options, so
you must explicitly separate them with {}.

This should work:

<%= form_tag(  {:action => :my_action}, {:name => :my_form} ) %>

Regards,
Rimantas
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