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Re: use id="xx" instead of <a name="xx"> in html output


From: Per Bothner
Subject: Re: use id="xx" instead of <a name="xx"> in html output
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 23:48:44 -0800
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On 02/11/2016 11:30 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On 9 February 2016 at 20:07, Per Bothner <address@hidden> wrote:
If we defer adding the <div>s for node until we see they needed (which may
make sense), then we get:

<section class="chapter" id="Chapter1">
<header>LINKS for chapter1</header>
<h2>Chapter1</h2>
Preamble
<table class="menu">...</table>

<section class="section" id="section11">
<header>LINKS for section11</header>
<h3>Section11</h3>
section11-text
</section>

<section class="section" id="section12">
<header>LINKS for section12</header>
<h3>Section12</h3>
section12-text
</section>

</section>

I agree in principle. This would have to be optional (because
<section> is an HTML5 tag),

Browsers generally ignore tags they don't understand, so I believe
there is no harm in using <section> instead of <div>, even for older
browsers.  However, this would need to be tested.

OTOH, if there is concern, there isn't really
much difference between:

  <section class="chapter" id="Chapter1">

and

  <div class="chapter" id="Chapter1">

The former is slightly more readable and explicit,
but in practice the difference is minor.  Especially if
you add a stylesheet rule:

  section { display: block }
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        --Per Bothner
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