Re: Name attribute for IMG tag

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:44:33 +0100
• To: Forrest Meiere <FMeiere@sc.rr.com>
• Cc: www-validator@w3.org
• Message-ID: <40105e18.42685818@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Forrest Meiere wrote:
>The W3C validator flags the attribute "Name" as invalid.  Apparently it 
>wants to see "ID" instead.  Unfortunately, both of the most popular 
>browsers, Netscape or Internet Explorer, require "Name" in such objects 
>as    document.Home.src

Take a look at

  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2003Mar/att-0105/table.html

and choose the appropriate document type. HTML 4.0 did not include
the name attribute on <img>, it has been introduced in HTML 4.01.

Received on Thursday, 8 January 2004 08:44:39 UTC