Posted by Harlan Messinger on 05/25/05 17:42

Richard Quick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?

Don't use <A> at all for this. Assign the ID to the HTML element to
which you actually want HREFs to lead. For example, instead of

<a id="summary"></a>
<h2>Summary</h2>
<p>...</p>

use

<h2 id="summary">Summary</h2>
<p>...</p>

This won't work in prehistoric versions of Netscape and IE, but if
you're determined to use XHTML you probably don't care much whether it
works in those browsers anyway.

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