Closed Bug 56818 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

espn needs to use same case on HTML anchor IDs and CSS ID selectors

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Platform:
All
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24409

People

(Reporter: ekrock, Assigned: bc)

References

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Details

Chris Waterson wrote:

> http://college.espn.go.com/ncf/index
>
> Is it just me, or is this page not showing up right in seamonkey?

The principal reason that that page is not laying out as the author intended is
that they are specifying the ID in upper case, but using ID selectors in lower
case. Since the ID attribute is case-sensitive in HTML, then the selector will
not match if it uses a different case from the document.

I believe that mozilla is behaving per spec, but correct me if I'm wrong. (I
imagine though that this rule will trip up more than one web author because "...
but it works in IE" ")

John

<html>
<head>
<style>
  #ONE { border: 1px solid red; }  /* selector in UPPER CASE */
  #two { border: 1px solid red; }  /* selector in lower case */
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="one">does this have a border?</div>  <!-- id value in lower
case -->
  <div id="two">does this have a border?</div>  <!-- id value in lower
case -->
</body>
</html>
I wanted to implement a quirk to make ID and CLASS case-insensitive but that 
would have required a big hack and the problem was closed as WontFix. See bug 
35522 for more info.

-> evangelism@telocity.com for my evangelism bugs.

removing the now-depreciated evangelism-related keywords.

setting platform to All.
Assignee: blakeross → evangelism
Hardware: PC → All
Reassigning evangelism bugs to bclary@netscape.com.
Assignee: evangelism → bclary
I have contacted them regarding this issue already.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24409 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
verified dupe
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.
Component: Evangelism → US English
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
Version: other → unspecified
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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