#174 output IDs to HTML

[Robert Stayton]

A member of the mailing list suggested an option to the
HTML stylesheets that will copy the ID attribute of an
element to its respective <div> or <span> element in the
HTML output. That would permit CSS styling of individual
elements using a selector based on ID.

[James Ascroft-Leigh]

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I would like to extend this request to move the id
attributes used as the fragment identifiers in hrefs to a
containing <div/> element.

The reason for this is, at the moment, probably not too
important: when the user clicks a hyperlink witha chapter
name, for instance, I think they expect to be presented with
the entire chapter instead of just the title of the chapter.

Current implementation of web browsers would behave in a way
that the user would not distinguish from the current
behaviour but future implementations may me more
intelligent. An example of this is the new :target [1]
pseudo-class introduced into CSS3 [2] that seems to already
be implemented in Mozilla Firebird [3]. This selects the
element with the id corresponding to the fragment identifier.

I would like to apply a different style (like a highlight or
a border) to these :target elements to make it clearer what
the hyperlink points to but, at the moment, I am only able
to highlight the title of chapters instead of the entire
chapter.

If the containing <div/> for the chapter were the :target
then I could still highlight only the title of it using the
:target > .title or something similar.

[1]
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-css3-selectors-20011113/#target-pseudo
[2] http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work
[3] http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/

[Michael(tm) Smith]

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