- From: Roland Bluethgen <calocybe@web.de>
- Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 05:39:23 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * 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.
If you had followed the pointer to the spec that Simon gave us, you
would have read:
>>ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be
followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"),
underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").<<
So long
Received on Saturday, 5 April 2003 22:39:49 UTC