RE: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Taylor
lto:[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

Re: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

2005-06-07 Thread Robin Berjon
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/ **

RE: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Taylor
e 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: > B

Re: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

2005-06-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
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 (unders

RE: [WSG] Valid characters in ID attribute

2005-06-07 Thread Ricci Angela
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 al