RE: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute
Hi, Chris As from W3C: ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens (-), underscores (_), colons (:), and periods (.). But I'd avoid using underscore for id/class names... I've already had intermitent bugs with IE6 because of it (specially for links). Cheers, Angela -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Chris Taylor Envoyé : mardi 7 juin 2005 12:12 À : wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Objet : [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute Hi, I'm writing a function to do all manner of clever stuff and need to create very complex ID attributes for links. As far as I know the only valid characters you can use in an ID (and as a class name, too) are: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, - Is that true? Are there any other valid characters that I can use in my IDs, without going the whole hog and creating a new DTD? Example of a link, just to make it clear which bit I mean: a href=index.html class=TheFunction id=TheFunction_%6237%6882/34_923%4623%4-234+6+3-2343Click here to run The Function/a Many thanks in advance Chris ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
RE: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute
Great, thanks. I'm very pleased that I can use periods and colons, that makes it much easier. Because this system will only be reading the ID through the DOM and not referring to it for style reasons I'm going to stick with the underscores. However I'll remember that advice for the future. Many thanks. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Gleitzman Sent: 07 June 2005 14:02 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute On 7 Jun 2005, at 9:35 PM, Ricci Angela wrote: But I'd avoid using underscore for id/class names... I've already had intermitent bugs with IE6 because of it (specially for links). Ditto for Safari... earlier versions, anyway. More recent versions may have been fixed, but I avoid them (underscores) anyway. N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute
Chris Taylor wrote: Great, thanks. I'm very pleased that I can use periods and colons, that makes it much easier. Not sure this applies to your case but note that colons are fine in HTML but forbidden in XHTML. -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
RE: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute
Thanks, obviously ideally I'd like my function to be XHTML-compliant as well. Fortunately I've worked out a way I can do what I want to do using just dashes, periods and alphanumeric characters. Thanks for all the help. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Berjon Sent: 07 June 2005 16:22 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute Chris Taylor wrote: Great, thanks. I'm very pleased that I can use periods and colons, that makes it much easier. Not sure this applies to your case but note that colons are fine in HTML but forbidden in XHTML. -- Robin Berjon Senior Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
