[whatwg] what use-case is there for the name-attribute on a fieldset?

Anne van Kesteren annevk at annevk.nl
Fri Dec 21 03:45:33 PST 2012


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Evert Van dansen
<evertvandansen at ymail.com> wrote:
> I am sorry, perhaps I misunderstand, but I do not see what the advantage is over using "regular" hooks (like id) in this case? Surely adding the name-attribute must have been a decision based on something specific?

Oh, the reason was likely that it was already widely supported,
despite not being mentioned in HTML4.


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