which is better?

#1

Either way I don't have overlapping tags, but I wonder which is more
esthetically and / or logically pleasing?

<a id="homepage"></a><a href="index.htm" title="Home page of The Bicycling
Guitarist">Home page</a>

OR

<a id="homepage"><a href="index.htm" title="Home page of The Bicycling
Guitarist">Home page</a></a>

I currently have the first arrangement, but will happily change it if the
second arrangement is preferred. Will both of them go to the same spot on
the page?

Thanks, Chris Watson a.k.a. "The Bicycling Guitarist"
www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/
I still have a code, but it's getting better.

#2

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:47:51 GMT, The Bicycling Guitarist
<Chris (AT) TheBicyclingGuitarist (DOT) net> declared in alt.html:

Quote:

a id="homepage"></a><a href="index.htm" title="Home page of The Bicycling
Guitarist">Home page</a

OR

a id="homepage"><a href="index.htm" title="Home page of The Bicycling
Guitarist">Home page</a></a

<a href="index.htm" id="homepage" title="Home page of The Bicycling
Guitarist">Home page</a>

--
Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au
"Never drink rum&coke whilst reading usenet" - rf 2004

#3

"The Bicycling Guitarist" <Chris (AT) TheBicyclingGuitarist (DOT) net> wrote

Quote:

Either way I don't have overlapping tags, but I wonder which is more
esthetically and / or logically pleasing?

a id="homepage"></a><a href="index.htm" title="Home page of The Bicycling
Guitarist">Home page</a

OR

a id="homepage"><a href="index.htm" title="Home page of The Bicycling
Guitarist">Home page</a></a

What about putting the id inside the <a href> tag???? I didn't even think of

that! is that okay? Better still than either of the other two ideas?

#4

"Mark Parnell" <webmaster (AT) clarkecomputers (DOT) com.au> wrote

Quote:

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:47:51 GMT, The Bicycling Guitarist
Chris (AT) TheBicyclingGuitarist (DOT) net> declared in alt.html:

a href="index.htm" id="homepage" title="Home page of The Bicycling
Guitarist">Home page</a

--
Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au
"Never drink rum&coke whilst reading usenet" - rf

You guys are SO fast! Thanks Mark. Answered in two minutes flat! Thanks
Brucie too, for all your l i t t l e v o i c e s.

#5

"Toby Inkster" <usenet200411 (AT) tobyinkster (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Quote:

The Bicycling Guitarist wrote:

a id="homepage"><a href="index.htm" title="Home page of The Bicycling
Guitarist">Home page</a></a

An anchor can't be nested within another anchor. See the W3C HTML 4.01
Recommendation, section 12.2.2.

Go read Mark's post.

Thank you Toby. I did as Mark suggested. Now I also know that my second

suggestion was not valid code. The new improved code is on my site map,
www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/sitemap.htm I'm still in the process of
eliminating some whitespace.

#6

"Toby Inkster" <usenet200411 (AT) tobyinkster (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Quote:

The Bicycling Guitarist wrote:
--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

Hey, your name has been in the source code of that page for a year, in the
<head>. If I listed everyone who's helped me, my code would be way bloated.

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