diff --git a/src/Controllers/ElementalAreaController.php b/src/Controllers/ElementalAreaController.php
index db7a7886..014e9a9f 100644
--- a/src/Controllers/ElementalAreaController.php
+++ b/src/Controllers/ElementalAreaController.php
@@ -298,8 +298,7 @@ public function getElementForm(): Form
     }
 
     /**
-     * Arrive here from FormRequestHandler::httpSubmission() during a POST request to
-     * /admin/linkfield/linkForm/<LinkID>
+     * Arrive here from FormRequestHandler::httpSubmission() during a POST request.
      * The 'save' method is called because it is the FormAction set on the Form
      */
     public function save(array $data, Form $form): HTTPResponse
@@ -332,10 +331,10 @@ public function save(array $data, Form $form): HTTPResponse
         }
 
         // Remove the namespace prefixes that were added by EditFormFactory
-        $dataWithoutNamespaces = static::removeNamespacesFromFields($data, $element->ID);
+        static::removeNamespacesFromFields($form, $element->ID);
 
         // Update and write the data object which will trigger model validation
-        $element->updateFromFormData($dataWithoutNamespaces);
+        $form->saveInto($element);
         if ($element->isChanged()) {
             try {
                 $element->write();
@@ -354,25 +353,19 @@ public function save(array $data, Form $form): HTTPResponse
 
     /**
      * Remove the pseudo namespaces that were added to form fields by the form factory
-     *
-     * @param array $data
-     * @param int $elementID
-     * @return array
      */
-    public static function removeNamespacesFromFields(array $data, $elementID)
+    private function removeNamespacesFromFields(Form $form, int $elementID): void
     {
-        $output = [];
         $template = sprintf(EditFormFactory::FIELD_NAMESPACE_TEMPLATE, $elementID, '');
-        foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
+        $saveableFields = $form->Fields()->saveableFields();
+        foreach ($saveableFields as $namespacedName => $field) {
             // Only look at fields that match the namespace template
-            if (substr($key ?? '', 0, strlen($template ?? '')) !== $template) {
+            if (substr($namespacedName, 0, strlen($template)) !== $template) {
                 continue;
             }
-
-            $fieldName = substr($key ?? '', strlen($template ?? ''));
-            $output[$fieldName] = $value;
+            $newName = substr($namespacedName, strlen($template));
+            $field->setName($newName);
         }
-        return $output;
     }
 
     private function reorderElements(BaseElement $element, int $afterElementID): void
diff --git a/src/Models/BaseElement.php b/src/Models/BaseElement.php
index b2e59996..dc1adccf 100644
--- a/src/Models/BaseElement.php
+++ b/src/Models/BaseElement.php
@@ -646,27 +646,6 @@ public function getRenderTemplates($suffix = '')
         return $templateFlat;
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Given form data (wit
-     *
-     * @param $data
-     */
-    public function updateFromFormData($data)
-    {
-        $cmsFields = $this->getCMSFields();
-
-        foreach ($data as $field => $datum) {
-            $field = $cmsFields->dataFieldByName($field);
-
-            if (!$field) {
-                continue;
-            }
-
-            $field->setSubmittedValue($datum);
-            $field->saveInto($this);
-        }
-    }
-
     /**
      * Strip all namespaces from class namespace.
      *