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Re: The ID Attribute

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 05:21:37 +0200
To: "Simon Jessey" <simon@jessey.net>
Cc: "www-html" <www-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3eb29c52.83464285@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Simon Jessey wrote:
>> Why is it invalid just because the value is numbers only?
>
>I think it has always been that way. The same goes for the name attribute.

The name attribute is a CDATA attribute and may thus contain almost any
character, <a name = '1 foo <> bar'>...</a> is perfectly valid in HTML.

Received on Saturday, 5 April 2003 22:22:14 GMT

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