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From: Lee, Samson (NIH/NIDCR)
Date: Thu, Dec 16 2004 11:04AM
Subject: id attribute in <td>- correct or incorrect?
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is it wrong to use id attribute in <td>? I found this
to be needed in a complicated table, but I&#8217;ve never seen this. Dreamweaver
shows this attribute in its intellisense, but I want to make sure if it&#8217;s
OK to use this way.





From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Thu, Dec 16 2004 11:20AM
Subject: Re: id attribute in <td>- correct or incorrect?
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The id
attribute is a Core attribute and may be applied to any tag (I am not certain
about the <html>, <head> or some of the other tags that appear in
the <head> section so for the time being, forget about those). You may use
the id to apply style or&nbsp;as a hook for scripting. For example, if you are
using tables for layout, you could create <td id="navbar"> and then create
styles based&nbsp;on the id such as&nbsp;td#navbar a:link {color: red;}. Yes, DW
is correct.

<FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: lees
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attribute in <td>- correct or incorrect?

<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Is it wrong to use id attribute in
<td>? I found this to be needed in a complicated table, but I&#8217;ve never
seen this. Dreamweaver shows this attribute in its intellisense, but I want to
make sure if it&#8217;s OK to use this
way.