15135 2011-12-09 23:58:09 +0000 The anchor in tag <a> with property "name" is very useful. Don't remove it form HTML5 please! 2011-12-14 00:30:12 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian marco mike mtanalin public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 61381 0 contributor 2011-12-09 23:58:09 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: The anchor in tag <a> with property "name" is very useful. Don't remove it form HTML5 please! Posted from: 67.169.177.45 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0) 61387 1 marco 2011-12-10 10:26:44 +0000 (In reply to comment #0) > Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ > Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top > Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top > > Comment: > The anchor in tag <a> with property "name" is very useful. Don't remove it > form HTML5 please! > > Posted from: 67.169.177.45 > User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; > Trident/5.0) If I am not mistaken the Name attribute is recommended to be replaced with a link type of Bookmark, which is more in-line with the way HTML5 documents are structured. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#link-type-bookmark Do you have any other specific use case of which it would be more suitable? 61395 2 mtanalin 2011-12-10 17:30:39 +0000 (In reply to comment #0) To make an anchor, just use 'id' attribute: <a href="#h-example">Link to a block</> <h2 id="h-example">Example block</h2> 61516 3 ian 2011-12-14 00:30:12 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: You can use id="" in new pages. Old pages are unaffected.