Re: name="" deprecated in XHTML
David Dorward <[email protected]>
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On 1 Jul 2008, at 14:20, Sebastian Mendel wrote: > yes, you can do all the things you could do with name also with > class, but you could also do all the things you can do with class > with the id No, you can't. @id does not let you mark an element as being part of a group. > but this is not the question, i think there are more elements/ > attributes which could be removed and their targeted using could be > reached another way > id = unique per document, one per element > class = non-unique, more per element Yes. > name = non-unique, one per element Depending on which element the attribute is applied to. > it is common to change classes of an element on the fly or dynamic So what? > name shouldn't Why not? > classes are overlapping, names not I have no idea what you mean by that. > it makes things more clear How so? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ http://blog.dorward.me.uk/