not supported tag variables

[Pavlos1316]

In HTML5 some attributes are no longer supported eg: name attr for <a> is no longer supported.

 

What happens when in a tag like <a> exists a non supported attr?

<a id="me" name="you">

Will it just be ignored like is not there or it can cause problems later on and how?

[Frank_b]

what i expect is that it will still be suported for a while simply because a lot of existing webpages will not change in years.

 

But if you want to use a better method then you should use the data- tag:

 

<a id="me" data-id="him" data-name="you">

 

The id tag is NOT deprecated in html5.

[bsmither]

I would think javascript will still find it:

 

var x = $('a#me').attr('name');

or something like that.

 

Will it cause problems later on? Anything is possible. But I would hope that anything discarded would stay discarded. Which means it's free for me to use.

[Pavlos1316]

what i expect is that it will still be suported for a while simply because a lot of existing webpages will not change in years.

 

But if you want to use a better method then you should use the data- tag:

 

<a id="me" data-id="him" data-name="you">

 

The id tag is NOT deprecated in html5.

Thank you very much... I wasn't aware for the data- tag and seems very helpful.