[Javascript] how to refer to (x)html elements

[Hassan Schroeder]

David Lovering wrote:

> Yes, you can have multiple uses of an id 

No. Flat no. That's wrong, in both HTML 4 and XHTML 1 --

HTML 4
	source: <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-id>

id = name [CS]
     This attribute assigns a name to an element. This name must be unique in a 
document.


XHTML 1
	source: <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#normative>

4.10. The elements with 'id' and 'name' attributes

HTML 4 defined the name attribute for the elements a, applet, form, frame, 
iframe, img, and map. HTML 4 also introduced the id attribute. Both of these 
attributes are designed to be used as fragment identifiers.

In XML, fragment identifiers are of type ID, and there can only be a single 
attribute of type ID per element. Therefore, in XHTML 1.0 the id attribute is 
defined to be of type ID.

> Also, I'm not sure what the
> convention is for returning pointers to a getElementById() call when there
> are multiple objects of the same id 

There is no "convention" because it's wrong. Did I mention that? :-)

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