1784 2005-07-20 04:09:42 +0000 Send warning for duplicated name attribute value 2007-03-29 18:50:05 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator check 0.7.0 All All NEW P4 enhancement --- 1 shinsa link www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 4984 0 shinsa 2005-07-20 04:09:42 +0000 Duplicated use of an anchor name cannot be detected. For example, it passes the HTML code below: <a name="top">Anchor 1</a> <a name="top">Anchor 2</a> 4987 1 ot 2005-07-20 04:37:57 +0000 (In reply to comment #0) > Duplicated use of an anchor name cannot be detected. > For example, it passes the HTML code below: > > <a name="top">Anchor 1</a> > <a name="top">Anchor 2</a> the "name" attribute is of type name, which means that unlike the "id" attribute, the name attribute has no constraint of uniqueness. As a result, the above is valid, and the validator parses it as such. In an attempt at usefulness, one could imagine that the validator could throw a warning when detecting a duplicate name attribute. I am changing the bug title to show this idea, and marking it as enhancement request. Note that in XHTML, the name attribute is deprecated. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.10 The HTML compatibility guidelines recommend to use name="foo" id="foo". This recommendation is also a good idea for HTML4. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_8 4993 2 bjoern 2005-07-20 11:54:02 +0000 s/warning/error since it violates HTML conformance requirements. I've implemented checks for this long ago in HTML Tidy...