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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:49 pm
by s.dot
I'm not sure I understand the question. All browsers make use of id depending on how you are using it.

I was stating above that IE will use the name of an element as an id if you make a call to an id that isn't there.

Ex:

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<div name="name">

document.getElementById("name").innerHTML = 'hi';

// IE will go ahead and execute this although the element clearly does
// NOT have an id.  It will use the name of the element.  Browsers like
// mozilla firefox, opera, and netscape will not.