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id attributes must be unique.Copyright 2005, ATRC, University Of Toronto, All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
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id attribute to see if it is unique to the content.id attribute value is expected to be unique.id attribute value so it is unique.Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.
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id attribute values are not unique.)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en-US" lang="en">
<head>
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #185 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border=1 summary="table #1 with IDs and HEADERS">
<tr>
<th id="city">City</th>
<th id="state">State</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td headers="city">Phoenix</td>
<td headers="state">Arizona</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td headers="city">Seattle</td>
<td headers="state">Washington</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border=1 summary="table #2 with IDs and HEADERS">
<tr>
<th id="city">City</th>
<th id="state">State</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td headers="city">Phoenix</td>
<td headers="state">Arizona</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td headers="city">Seattle</td>
<td headers="state">Washington</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
id attribute values are unique.)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en-US" lang="en">
<head>
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #1 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border=1 summary="table #1 with IDs and HEADERS">
<tr>
<th id="city">City</th>
<th id="state">State</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td headers="city">Phoenix</td>
<td headers="state">Arizona</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td headers="city">Seattle</td>
<td headers="state">Washington</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border=1 summary="table #2 with IDs and HEADERS">
<tr>
<th id="bigcity">City</th>
<th id="bigstate">State</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td headers="city">Phoenix</td>
<td headers="state">Arizona</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td headers="city">Seattle</td>
<td headers="state">Washington</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>