Name attribute questions

[gohankid77]

In XHTML 1.1, wasn't the NAME attribute supposed to be completely replaced by the ID attribute? Yet, the NAME attribute is still present in some tags:

<object>
<param>
<input>
<select>
<textarea>
<button>

There might be more. I don't know why, but it seems the W3C somehow forgot that rule. Hmm................

 

[DaZZleD]

I believe it's still there to offer backwards compatibility with older browsers

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

AFAIK the NAME attribute is still valid markup in XHTML 1.1... Admittedly, I haven't checked the specs, but pages I've got that are Strict 1.1 compliant don't fail any validation, so I can only assume that to be the case.

Where did you hear that is was going to be removed? I'd be interested to read the article.

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[ArkM]

See XHTML 1.1 (as a module-based XHTML 1.0 Strict):

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/

See also Modularization of XHTML:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xhtml-modularization-20010410/

From 1st source (Changes from XHTML 1.0 Strict):

On the a and map elements,
the name attribute has been removed
in favor of the id attribute 
(as defined in [XHTMLMOD [p.13] ]).

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

So rather than being "completely replaced", it's more a case of "it's been changed on only 2 elements"... That's good - I was worrying that all my compliant pages with NAME attributes on input tags were suddenly going to break!

Dan

 

[gohankid77]

Sorry for the confusion everybody. Thank you all for your input.