[ale] html/javascript question.. linux < OT < baseball strike

[Fulton Green]

Two things that might be going wrong here:

1) HTML 4.0x deprecates the 'name' attribute, preferring the 'id' attribute
   instead.
2) A less likely problem could be that the value of the 'name' attribute
   needs to be delimited by double-quotes, as in name="foo" .

And, as usual, be sure to test in newer and older browser versions.

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:43:45PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> For a long while now I I've used a bit of javascript to change an image 
> when the image is selected (onMouseDown()).  To do this, the img tag 
> contains a 'name=foo' attribute which is used by the javascript to 
> locate the image.
> 
> I just happened to run the w3c html validator against this code and it 
> notes that 'name=foo' is not a valid attribute for HTML 4.0.  Removing 
> the reference rids me of the validator error, but then the onMouseDown() 
> does not work, and I get a javascript error in the javascript console.
> 
> Anyone else doing something like this, I guess in a different way, so as 
> to please both html 4.0 and javascript??

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