Klaus Hartl schrieb: > Yehuda Katz schrieb: >> I'm not sure I read it that way: >> >> The following example illustrates that id >> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-id> and name >> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#adef-name-A> must be the >> same when both appear in an element's start tag: >> >> <P><A name="a1" id="a1" href="#a1">...</A> >> >> >> The language is pretty unambiguous. Am I missing something obvious? > > You quoted the important part yourself already: > > "The id and name attributes share the same name space. This means that > they cannot both define an anchor with the same name in the same document." > > => Meaning you cannot create two anchors with the same name/id on two > *different* elements. See the illegal example. Or in other words, you > can only have one anchor of its kind in a document. > > > "It is permissible to use both attributes to specify an element's unique > identifier for the following elements: A, APPLET, FORM, FRAME, IFRAME, > IMG, and MAP. When both attributes are used on a single element, their > values must be identical." > > => The list of elements to which the rules apply here does not include > form elements. The name attribute of a form element is *not* its unique > identifier, that's important (you can have form elements with the name > of course).
The problem is, that the name attribute as well as the id attribute serves as a unique identifier for an anchor (and the other mentioned elements). If you use both attributes, they must be the same, because otherwise you would have two different unique (which is a paradoxon obviously) identifiers for one single element. But this does not apply to form elements, what is where this discussion aroused from. For the other elements you are right of course. -- Klaus _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
