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Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

Dhaliwal — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:05:03 GMT

vcsjones,

A very thoughtful post, but about name and id attribute, I was under an impression that id is used to specify the unique id of a control where as name specifies the name of a control. I normally use these 2 in javascript in such way:

id- when I look for a single control
name - when I look for group of controls

the function in javascript that can be used for these are :

document.getElementById('') for id
document.getElementsByName('') for name

How come the name attribute is Deprecated, where as document.getElementsByName('') is available in intellisense of javascript in vs-2008.
and
How can id replace the need for name when we can have same name for many controls where as id should be unique

ref: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_a.asp

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

mathewhadley — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:30:15 GMT

The advantages of ``strict syntax'' over the legacy FTL syntax are:

Since all <#...> and </#...> are reserved for FTL:
- We can introduce new directives without breaking backward compatibility.
- We can detect if you made a typo, i.e. <#inculde ...> is treated as parse-time error, rather than silently treated as simple text.
- It is easier for third-party tools to handle templates (e.g. do syntax highlighting), especially since they don't have to know about the new directives introduced with new releases.
- Templates are more readable, since it is easier to spot <#...> tags embedded into HTML or other markup.
<# and </# is illegal XML (except in CDATA sections), and illegal in almost all other SGML applications, so they can't interfere with the tags used in the static text parts (e.g. if you have include element in the generated XML).

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mathew hadley
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Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

ratkiley — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:50:59 GMT

The id attribute can be used instead. This has the added value that every id must be unique within a page.

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_a.asp

for example:

<a id="Location1"></a>

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

EOTB — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:56:30 GMT

Hi Guys,

This maybe slightly off topic, but I have found that the <a name="..... construct is also deprecated, as with the <map name=".....

Problem is, I am trying to programically code that when a button is click and the page is posted back, I want to scroll the page down to a pre-defined point. In pure HTML you used the following to perform this function:

<a name="Location1"></a>
........
<a href="#Location1">Move to Location 1</a>

Does anyone know how to achieve this in ASP.net VB code?

Thanks for your help

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

thuhue — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:14:17 GMT

Try this: style="white-space:nowrap"

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

bantionyou — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:26:44 GMT

Hi, for nowrap Newer Construct: Use the CSS property “word-wrap" is not working.

I can not find CSS property “word-wrap" when i write style........

Please guide for this.

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

NewToDev — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:21:41 GMT

Hi Kevin,

Margin-left and Magrin-right at "auto" only get a table centered. if you want a left aligned or right aligned talbe, then set margin-left: 0 or margin-right: 0.

Cheers

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

vcsjones — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:09:03 GMT

Thanks! I updated it to use your suggestion.

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

NewToDev — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:04:26 GMT

"table

align Newer Construct: Use the CSS property “text-align”.

"text-align" doesn't work the same way as align in restrict mode, it only works on child elements of table but not the table itself.

The way to get table centered is to set table's left margin and right margin at "auto".

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

vcsjones — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:25:40 GMT

No problem. I do that all the time. And to answer your original question, none of the event attributes have been depricated. Though VS might tell otherwise if the event isn't in a specific schema.

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

RSewell — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:41:01 GMT

Never mind, nix all that. Funny how you can stare at a typo for months and not see it. It took posting the error message here and then correcting it before I realized that VS2005 is right: attribute 'onmousemover' is indeed not a valid attribute of any element. (sigh)

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

RSewell — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:13:28 GMT

What about events?

I've got a page I've converted from ASP to ASP.NET 2.0 that uses onmouseover and onmouseout events on an anchor tag. VS2005 tells me "Validation (XHTML 1.0 Transitional) Attribute 'onmouseover' is not a valid attribute of element 'a'" and the events don't fire in the browser. However, I have the exact same code in an XHTML 1.0 Transitional ASP page and the event fires there.

Also, the W3C specs for XHTML 1.0 Transitional 1999 (http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/xhtml-modularization-19990406/DTD/doc/xhtml1-t.elt.html) define the onmouseover/out events for an anchor tag. So why does MS think it's not valid?

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

vcsjones — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:45:12 GMT

yes that is correct, depending on what element you are applying it to.

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

BradRoberts56 — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:36:27 GMT

Is this also correct?

style

="width:50%"

Re: Deprecated Items and Newer Constructs

vcsjones — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:53:55 GMT

Correct.