An ID should be unique. That's why it's callled an ID (IDentifier). Repeating an ID in a page will cause problems for any DOM work.
For your purposes, you might do something like: <div class="Foo" id="foo_1"></div> <div class="Bar" id="bar_1"></div> <div class="Foo" id="foo_2"></div> <div class="Bar" id="bar_2"></div> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:24 PM, riotbrrd <k...@riotbrrd.com> wrote: > > I realize this is not jQuery specific, but I figured you guys might > have some good advice... > > I often find myself wanting to assign the same ID to multiple elements > in a document -- typically when there are several versions of an > element which display at different times. Is there a good reason NOT > to do this? If so, what's a better practice? > > thanks, > Kim
