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From: Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: document.elementname vs document.getElementById("id")
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:10:04 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:02:52 +0300, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> "This attribute names the element so that it may be referred to from
> style sheets or scripts. Note. This attribute has been included for
> backwards compatibility. Applications should use the id attribute to
> identify elements."
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-name-FORM

Many thanks, that's the bit I was having trouble finding.

Rgds

Denis McMahon