How to avoid sending input fields which are hidden by display:none to a server?

Question

Imagine you have a form where you switch visibility of several fields. And if the field is not displayed you don\'t want its value to be in request.

How do you handl

Answer 1

One very simple (but not always the most convenient) solution is to remove the "name" attribute -- the standard requires that browsers not send unnamed values, and all browsers I know abide to this rule.