Posted by Mark Parnell on 06/08/06 23:48

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> declared in alt.html:

> Allow me. When you want to link to something where you would be
> tempted to put <a name="some_name">Description</a> put instead <a
> id="some_name">Description</a>

Ah, but this is only part of the story. In most cases you won't even
need to use <a id="some_name">, as "Description" will most likely
already be contained within another element such as a heading or
paragraph, and the id can be applied to that element instead of adding
an unnecessary <a>.

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Mark Parnell
My Usenet is improved; yours could be too:
http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

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