From: Dr. D. R. N. <d.r...@qu...> - 2004-08-14 09:55:52
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Stuart Donaldson wrote: > Ok, so I take it back. I was going to fix this to be <a name="x"> but > went to check and found that <a id="x"> is also perfectly valid > according to: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.2.3 For HTML 4, that is correct. But old browsers, using HTML 3, only know about name, not id. So the safest thing is to use both, set to the same value, as (from the link above): > The id and name attributes share the same name space. This means that > they cannot both define an anchor with the same name in the same > document. It is permissible to use both attributes to specify an > element's unique identifier for the following elements: A, APPLET, > FORM, FRAME, IFRAME, IMG, and MAP. When both attributes are used on a > single element, their values must be identical. |