On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> To add a couple of point to this: First the name attribute is deprecated > because it turned out to be a mistake. It server the exact same purpose > as id and it redundant. Actually not redundant in forms -- e.g. radio button elements can be grouped by a shared name /and/ have unique IDs -- but... > So given that there is not three identifiers there is just one, which is > id. The class attribute does not identify a DOM element. No, it doesn't identify a *unique* DOM element, but ... > Notice that all id attributes are unique on the page and are used to > identify DOM elements. CSS class names describe the styling and are not > used to identify the DOM elements. ..e.g., you mentioned Prototype, which provides a convenient getElementsByClassName() method which identifies a *set* of DOM elements. :-) -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
