ID instead of NAME?

**Truly** · 04-20-2008, 09:17 PM

I was just re-reading the XHTML rules and one thing I noticed was that it says that 'name' is now deprecated. I can understand this for elements because everyone is going to be unique, but if I am going <div name="style"> is that ok? My understanding was you use name if it occurs more than one, so if I use "style" more than once, and id if it only happends once.

Is that true or should I never use name anymore?

**A Monkey Typing** · 10:26 PM

The Div tag does not support a "name" attribute reference.

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around why you're trying to use an anchor attribute for a division. Can you give an example of what you're trying to accomplish?

**Truly** · 04-20-2008, 10:28 PM

Wow I totally spaced out when I wrote that. No wonder I didnt "notice" that before, it doesnt make any sense.

I was thinking "class" when I said name.... lets just forget about this post :P

**A Monkey Typing** · 04-20-2008, 10:34 PM

It happens to the best of us

**wayfarer07** · 04-21-2008, 12:15 AM

I'm confused... are you saying that the "class" attribute is depreciated?? It certainly isn't...

**A Monkey Typing** · 04-21-2008, 09:29 AM

What's being depreciated is the use of the attribute "name" in the below elements:

Quote:

HTML 4.01 defines a name attribute for the elements a, applet, frame, iframe, img, and map. In XHTML the name attribute is deprecated. Use id instead.

http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_syntax.asp

**LadynRed** · 04-21-2008, 10:10 AM

You should not be using <a name="top"></a> for anchors. You SHOULD be using ID's instead and they work with old browser versions. So, instead of adding a lot of extra code for anchors, you just use an ID on an element instead such as:

<body id="top"> - a link down the page for 'go to top' would be the same: <a href="#top">top</a>

**Gilligan** · 04-21-2008, 12:38 PM

But you could always just link to filename.html# to go to the top

<a href="#">We all love Gilligan</a>

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**Truly** · 04-21-2008, 02:52 PM

Ya I had been reading stuff for a long time and mixed up the two (classes and names) and I thought they were saying when we were using css we werent supposed to use classes anymore. That was my cue to go get some sleep