[thelist] ID= vs NAME=

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 8 23:06:59 CDT 2000


> From: James Spahr
>
> NN 4.x only recognizes NAME (IE can deal with either)
>
> NAME is not valid HTML 4.0 (strict or transitional DTDs)

just saw this... and wanted to clarify it...

'name' is in fact a valud attribute, but only with certain
tags... like <meta>...  check the HTML4 specs for its proper
use/mis-use...

james is most likely talking about using it for JS-calls and
such...





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