  name / id attribute usage  From: <mccarthy36@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 14:45:01 -0500 Message-ID:
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html@w3.org  There is a great deal of confusion surrounding the
appropriate usage of the 'name' and 'id' attributes.  As you are
probably aware, some existing (popular) user agents do not
properly treat the 'id' value as the control name of a form
element (e.g. 'input'), so it is a practicaly necessity to use
the 'name' attribute.  By the same token, the id attribute must
be used to identify elements for styling purposes.  In 12.2.3 of
HTML 4.01 it says (regarding the 'name' and 'id' attributes):
"It is permissible to use both attributes to specify an
element's unique and MAP."  This section is about fragment
identifiers.  Although it does not say so, is this statement
true only in context when using 'name' / 'id' to create fragment
identifiers?  Or is it true in general, precluding the
simultaneous use of 'name' and 'id' on, say, an 'input' el