Do I misread the HTML 4.01 spec
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/attributes.html)?  It says that ID is a
"document-wide unique ID".  The whole point of the ID tag is to have a
unique ID, is it not?  Doesn't having a non-unique ID defeat the purpose of
having an ID altogether?

I agree that the "name" attribute is apparently not subject to the same
restriction, though.

---Michael B.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: October 23, 2006 10:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Question from a newbie

---Michael B. wrote:

>>Congratulations:  you've found a bug.  There should not be two text
fields
>>with the same ID and the same name on the same page.  

It is not a bug because internally index is used to make all page
objects unique. It may be poor design and/or lazy programming--I'll give
you that! ;-P

--Mark


Ask the developers to
fix the bug.  If you get pushback, tell them (or the project manager)
that
the page as current constructed interferes with testability.  If you get
pushback, then use (:index, [some number]) to locate the appropriate
element.



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