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Lazykatz Posts: 163 Joined: 1/12/2005 Status: offline	id vs. title - 4/5/2005 23:37:14 Hi all, Is there any difference with using id or title. It is being used in navigation now, I have used/tried both and see no difference in them. Or is it an assessability issue for end user of with one I use. <li><a href="index" id="hompage" class="xyz">Home</a> <li><a href="index" title="hompage" class="xyz">Home</a> Thanks All, Grizz _____________________________ http://lazykatz.com


suzkaw Posts: 161 From: North Carolina, USA Status: offline	RE: id vs. title - 4/6/2005 0:35:21 I could be wrong on this but I believe the use of title would be for accesability and the id would be used if you are going to target it through javascript. _____________________________ Thanks, Eric 68 Classifieds (in reply to Lazykatz)


Lazykatz Posts: 163 Joined: 1/12/2005 Status: offline	RE: id vs. title - 4/6/2005 1:19:52 Thanks Eric, This is a navigation built with css, no javascript. When I saw the raw code, some html lines used id= and others with title=. It is a simple script, just curious why the difference. If it is an accessability issue, I'll use title= if you're right. I went to your site, nice program, got it bookmarked, we are looking for a program to launch an online fleamarket in the future. Grizz < Message edited by Lazykatz -- 4/6/2005 1:29:05 > _____________________________ http://lazykatz.com (in reply to suzkaw)

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RE: id vs. title - 4/6/2005 3:00:07

AFAIK you are comparing apples with mushrooms here. "ID" and "Title" are not used for the same thing.

"Title" is used to give a description that comes up when the mouse pointer is over the item which has been given the title. It is commonly used to duplicate the "Alt" attribute on images so that browsers that work properly (FF Opera etc) copy what IE does (wrongly) with just the "alt"

"ID" is used instead of "Class" to uniquely define an element. It can only be used once on a page whereas "class can be used as often as you like. For instance CSS

#albatross{margin:0; etc.etc.}

called as

<div id="albatross">blah blah blah</div>

can only be used once on a page but CSS

.red{
font: normal 0.7em  tahoma, helvetica, sans-serif; 
color: #f00;
}

called as

<span class="red">text goes here</span>

can be used as many times as you like.

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jaybee Posts: 14207 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: id vs. title - 4/6/2005 6:37:05 quote: AFAIK you are comparing apples with mushrooms here. Donkey is correct. ID and title are not even remotely the same thing. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to Donkey)


d a v e Posts: 4194 Joined: 7/24/2002 From: England (but live in Finland now) Status: online	RE: id vs. title - 4/6/2005 7:45:49 also for reference Id - http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-id and title - http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-title _____________________________ David Prescott Gekko web design (in reply to jaybee)


Lazykatz Posts: 163 Joined: 1/12/2005 Status: offline	RE: id vs. title - 4/8/2005 0:04:41 Thanks all for your input, I'll be posting a preview of new site as soon as I can get it all to validate and navigate correctly. Grizz _____________________________ http://lazykatz.com (in reply to d a v e)