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Posted by Steve Pugh on 05/25/05 16:03
"Richard Quick" <richard.quick@chocolatemagazine.co.uk> wrote:
>xhtml 1.1 doesn't allow the name attribute, so anchor tags should look like
>this:
>
><a id="anchor"></a>
>
>Bobby seems to think this is an empty link tag, and therefore fails the page
>for having links that don't make sense out of context.
>
>Anyone know a workaround to this?
Put some content inside it. Normally you want to link to a specific
section of a page, and specific sections of a page normally have
headers. So <h2><a id="anchor">Heading</a></h2>
But, you might as well go the whole way and just use <h2
id="anchor">Heading</h2> because by dropping the name attribute you've
already dropped support for old browsers - I can't think of a single
browser that supports using ids as anchors on <a> but not on other
elements.
>BTW - I know all the arguments about Booby not being the be-all and end all.
>I normally just use it as a tool to check if I've forgotten anything, but on
>this occasion the client has specified that they want xhtml 1.1 that
>validates AAA with Bobby. Grrrr!
Your client is happy for the site to be Bobby friendly rather than
actually accessible? And is happy for it to be XHTML 1.1 rather than
something that works in IE? Does your client know more about web
authoring than you do? If so why aren't they doing the work
themselves?
Steve
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