Peter Krefting <[email protected]> wrote: > MJ Ray: > > > Moreover, a name cannot be only a number. See > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-id > > An anchor name can (<a name="1"> is valid), but it is not allowed using > the current syntax (using the id attribute: <h1 id="1">foobar</h1> is > not valid, while <h1 id="topic1">foobar</h1> is). The <a name> > construct was, IIRC, deprecated when HTML 4 was introduced ten years > ago.
Yes, you may be right. HTML 4 says both that name is CDATA (not NAME as I incorrectly linked above) and that it shares a namespace with id (which is the ID and NAME type I linked to above). You're definitely right that name is now deprecated. It should be phased out when someone gets time. Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
