# Duplicate ID on contact form

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/duplicate-id-on-contact-form/366>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [November 15, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/duplicate-id-on-contact-form/366 "2016-11-15T16:15:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Paul](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Paul)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/duplicate-id-on-contact-form/366/1 "2016-11-15T16:15:35Z")

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Everytime I use the contact form, W3C suggestions duplicate ID’s for the message area ‘TextArea’ even if I rename it some something random it still says duplicate ID. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

The dummy site I am working on is [henleyjoinery.peppardcreative.co.uk](http://henleyjoinery.peppardcreative.co.uk)

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**Author:** ![Thomas](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/thomas/32/61_2.png) [@Thomas](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Thomas)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 8:03am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/duplicate-id-on-contact-form/366/2 "2016-11-16T08:03:22Z")

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Hi Paul,

it might appear, that I’m entirely wrong, but you applied two IDs to one element.

\<textarea name=“comments” **id=“comments”** class=“form-control” rows=“3” placeholder=“Message” **id="messagetextArea2**"\>

Interestingly enough, you can only see it in the source-code, not in the DOM view?

Am I wrong?

Cheers

Thomas

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**Author:** ![Paul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Paul](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Paul)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/duplicate-id-on-contact-form/366/3 "2016-11-16T09:36:42Z")

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Thank you Thomas, yes you are correct doesn’t appear in the DOM view. I’ll amend the form code and see how it goes…