Re: maximum length of html id name


Chris Morris wrote:
hug wrote::
<snip>
... I am having difficulty finding the maximum allowable
length of the id string. ? tia.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html says:
ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be
followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"),
^^^^^^^^^^
underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

No maximum length

From the SGML Declaration of HTML 4:-

| ATTSPLEN 65536 -- These are the largest values --
| LITLEN 65536 -- permitted in the declaration --
| NAMELEN 65536 -- Avoid fixed limits in actual --
| PILEN 65536 -- implementations of HTML UA's --

I believe that NAMELEN may be the significant setting (65,536
characters), though the note suggests that it should not actualy
reprresent a limit in practice.

Richard.

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