- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:10:51 +0200
Quoting David Walbert <dwalbert at learnnc.org>: > For scripting purposes I have occasionally needed to tie an image and > its caption explicitly by giving them related IDs that a particular > javascript function can call (e.g. img id="img1" and p id="img- > caption"), and it would be helpful in these situations to have a > standard syntax for that explicit relation. But the availability of > such syntax should not imply that everyone needs to use it for all > markup, all the time; I can't see it being useful in ordinary web > design (to the reader/user, which should ultimately be the point) > unless there are actions associated with the image and caption. If the relationship between the image and caption is well defined. For example, when the next sibling _element_ of <img> is <p>, <p> is the caption of <img> you can easily introduce some DOM attribute on HTMLImageElement named caption that gives you back the HTMLParagraphElement associated with it. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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