ID already defined

alanjgrace

Hi Guys,

im trying to validate a form for xhtml and one of the errors coming up a lot is ID "whatever" already defined. How do i get around this as in the case of radio buttons the id is the same for the yes and no states. I thought the id for them had to be the same for the radio button to work correctly?

Thanks

mewso

No it's name that has to match not the id.

dkell

The ID attributes need to be unique for each HTML element on a page

alanjgrace

Ok guys cheers

nikimere

If you using ID to reference multiple elements on a page you will fail XHTML, however you can use "class" instead of "id" and that should work fine.

Eoin

nikimere wrote: »

If you using ID to reference multiple elements on a page you will fail XHTML, however you can use "class" instead of "id" and that should work fine.

The class is just for the style though.

The specification should really include a "group" attribute - while "name" is the correct way to group them, I don't think it's all that intuitive in this instance.

nikimere

Yeh your right, i didnt' read the 1st post properly....
It was early