- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:59:35 +0100
- To: W3C HTML Mailing List <www-html@w3.org>
Johannes Koch wrote: > > David Woolley schrieb: > >> (strictly speaking you could probably have both ID and NAME, with >> different values) > > For a element, this is questionable. > <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#adef-name-A>: On reflection, you are right. The intention of that part of the spec is to allow a transition to purely using ID. I included the parenthesized bit as an afterthought to try and avoid someone picking that up as a fine detail, even though it would clearly have been bad practice, whatever the spec said (hence "in theory", to imply it was bad practice). > >> Note that this attribute shares the same name space as the id attribute > > I read this as: name and id attributes for the same a element must have > the same values. > The important quote was actually: the value of this attribute must be a unique anchor name. which rules out the use of the same name value for multiple A elements. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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