- From: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:02:12 -0700
- To: Jerry Baker <jerrybaker@attbi.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On 7/25/02 2:43 PM, "Jerry Baker" <jerrybaker@attbi.com> wrote: > > Tantek Celik says: >> >> So, really what you _should_ do is stop using named anchors, and use the >> "id" attribute instead directly on the target element (i.e. don't use an >> unnecessary <a> element at all for the destination of a hyperlink), which is >> much better structurally than those empty named anchors that litter the web. > > That's a nice way to do it, but how do you address user agents that > still deal with HTML 3, 4, and XHTML 1.0? There has got to be a way to > address them. Using the "id" attribute directly on an element works with HTML4 and XHTML 1.0 already[1][2]. Are you seriously still dealing with HTML3? And simultaneously with CSS? Tantek [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.1.1 [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/Overview.html#h-4.10
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