[tw5] Re: What's the issue with IDs again?

2021-07-06 Thread TiddlyTweeter
Ciao PMario I wanted to join Mat in saying that is a *great *reply. Very clarifying. For my own usage I would comment I have used IDs successfully BUT I do it within a single tiddler with transclusions where I want simple in Tiddler navigation. I always use unique IDs. The use case is an

[tw5] Re: What's the issue with IDs again?

2021-07-05 Thread TW Tones
Chris, One thing I have observed with issues such as this, is too many people look for "one size fits all" to the detriment of finding a good enough solution. In my last post I hit at a number of good enough solutions for many different cases. Perhaps the simplest method is to break the

[tw5] Re: What's the issue with IDs again?

2021-07-05 Thread clutterstack
I'm going to admit I'm missing something, too. I'm not certain whether there's a technical factor that makes ids worse in TW than in HTML, or if it's just the distinction between an HTML *developer* (who can easily put duplicate ids into a page) and a TW *user* that makes them too dangerous

[tw5] Re: What's the issue with IDs again?

2021-07-04 Thread TW Tones
MArt, With my recently developed use of arbitrary html tags for more sliders I needed to make use of an ID, Which I pass to A macro to toggle the state (via CSS). I have some possible approach's - Let the author take control of the uniqueness, easy as below methods - Use a functional

[tw5] Re: What's the issue with IDs again?

2021-07-02 Thread Mat
Much appreciated Mario. What a great reply! (did you even create that example? Just for me???) So does the "ID issue" for "elements" only concern HTML elements then? I just posted an idea on gh: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/discussions/5844 <:-) On Saturday, July 3, 2021 at

[tw5] Re: What's the issue with IDs again?

2021-07-02 Thread PMario
On Friday, July 2, 2021 at 6:56:58 PM UTC+2 Mat wrote: > In HTML one can apply an ID attribute to objects. I know this is not > possible in TW... but I don't get why. Can someone explain why this is not > possible or not appropriate, please. Hi Mat, It is possible to use IDs with TW. ...