Re: name="" deprecated in XHTML
Sebastian Mendel <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.html.general |
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Franklin Tse schrieb: >> i used to use name="" to group equal elements, or in other words, same >> element placed more than once on a page >> >> e.g. a footnote <sup name="footnote_1">1</sup> >> >> (and than i used the name to attach a mouse hover event to it which >> displayed the content from the bottom in a bubble hint) >> >> but this is now deprecated >> >> does this makes sense? > > The class attribute appears to be more suitable for grouping. no, not really, class groups element of the same 'class' like: cars, convertibles, trucks, ... or even: red trucks, large cars, ... or: red ones, large ones, ... name groups same elements like: Ford Mdoell T id identifies every single element like: Ford Modell T number 123 do you know what i mean? -- Sebastian Mendel