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

[Geoffrey]

Gary MacKay wrote:
> Is it possible that you need quotes? name="foo" to satisfy the standards?

Actually, I had the quotes, note my response to Fulton's first 
suggestion, regarding s/name/id/

> 
> 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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