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Bug 15135 - The anchor in tag <a> with property "name" is very useful. Don't remove it form HTML5 please!
Summary: The anchor in tag <a> with property "name" is very useful. Don't remove it fo...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-12-09 23:58 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-12-14 00:30 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-12-09 23:58:09 UTC 
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)
Comment 1 Marco Kotrotsos 2011-12-10 10:26:44 UTC 
(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?
Comment 2 Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com 2011-12-10 17:30:39 UTC 
(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>
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-14 00:30:12 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: You can use id="" in new pages. Old pages are unaffected.