That's what I thought too... but adding CB to the I'd name fixed it. On Apr 28, 2012 12:35 PM, "T.J. Crowder" <t...@crowdersoftware.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 27 April 2012 10:47:51 UTC+1, DaveK wrote: >> >> > <input type='checkbox' id='1' >> >> not a legal ID - must start with a letter > > > That's no longer true as of HTML5, which in this case is just documenting > what browsers already did: > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/elements.html#the-id-attribute > > It *was* true for HTML4, but browsers didn't care in terms of > document.getElementById and such. > > Note that it's still true for CSS (#1 is an invalid selector), and > browsers *do* care about that (e.g., with querySelectorAll and such): > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#value-def-identifier > > So while HTML5 is very lax, if you're ever going to use CSS selectors to > refer to the element, best to stick to the more restrictive CSS rules. > > FWIW, > -- > T.J. Crowder > Independent Software Engineer > tj / crowder software / com > www / crowder software / com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/prototype-scriptaculous/-/waBN43eCc84J. > To post to this group, send email to > prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
