that actually makes sense.  sometimes the world is less crazy than it
appears.

On May 2, 3:09 pm, Sanford Whiteman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > then why can you get the elements by class name or just by tag type?
>
> An  `id`  has to be a unique document-wide ID attribute in order to be
> queried that way. You can create an attribute that happens to be named
> `id`,  but  you can't technically have ID attributes in a disconnected
> DOM "island".
>
> You can, however, query the id as a simple attribute:
>
> getElement('[id=myid]')
>
> Classes  and tags are not so closely tied to the document (and thus to
> the  DTD).
>
> -- S.

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