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 (e.g. making *id* a widget attribute would introduce problems for adopters and thus for the community trying to support them).
Once you're writing macros using qualify etc., because you need some unique identifier for the code to work, then you get the responsibility for the edge cases. I'm fuzzy on whether there's an intractable technical problem that prevents, for example, a widget for an HTML datalist tag, using qualify to get a unique id. I have to admit I haven't explored it, but I haven't thought of a reason why it couldn't work -- just that if you put that widget in twice in a row with the same attribute values, you would get two elements with the same id, so if policy is that a widget should not allow a user to do that, then...but even then, surely there's technically a way to generate a unique id for each instance? I admit it gets messy (have to be able to keep track of and refer to that id), and the more complicated it gets, the more attractive other complicated-seeming solutions become (thinking about keyboard-driven-input). So, those are my thoughts today on that topic! Ha. I have been wondering. I'm more satisfied now that I've thought it through, but still curious about further insights. Best, Chris On Friday, July 2, 2021 at 12:56:58 PM UTC-4 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. > > I have some ideas but need to understand this issue before going further. > > Thanx > > <:-) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c963d2f0-585c-4d2b-883e-06b7ec10ea1cn%40googlegroups.com.
