Re: a name vs. span id?

On May 26, 1:29 pm, Jim Moe <jmm-list.AXSPA...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 05/26/08 11:27 am, yawnmoth wrote:> Is there any reason to use <a name="..."> over <span id="..."> (or
div / img / whatever)?

It depends. What is the context of the question?

None, really. I was viewing the HTML source of some webpage, looking
for an anchor name I could link to and didn't find one. I did,
however, find an id, and, just for kicks and giggles, decided to use
that after the # and it worked, to my surprise.

All the webpages / webapps I've worked, thus far, on have used anchor
name. I don't plan on updating those applications but I might do
future ones with id's, instead.

I'm not really sure how many contexts there could be for a question
such as this?
.

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