QRe: [thelist] Question about proper tag

Simon Willison cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Mon Aug 25 10:15:35 CDT 2003


rudy wrote:
>>><h2 id="section157">Section 157</h2>
>>
>>Holy heck!  Am I the *only* person that didn't know you could do this??  
> 
> prolly not
> 
> it's not backwards compatible, though -- browsers that don't support 
 > id will dump you either at the top of the page or the bottom if you
 > follow a link to that id

It's part of the HTML4 standard though, and every browser released since 
1998 should be able to cope with it (every browser I've tried since then 
has). Of course, good old Netscape 4 was released in 1997 ;)

Cheers,

Simon





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