Name vs Id attribute in HTML

 

Are there any advantages to using <div id="here" ... instead of <div name="here" ...

are they both referenced to as #here?

Here are some difference between both :

  • name has never been a div element attribute.
  • name as used on the form controls (input, textarea, select, button elements) is radically different from the id attribute on named elements. In this case, the name attribute relates to how data is labeled when sent to server, and multiple elements may share the same name. The id attribute on the other hand is for identifying one unique element for the purposes of scripting, styling, or addressing.

  • The use of the name attribute on other elements than form controls was in HTML4.01 the same as that of id, but it allowed for a wider set of characters than the id attribute and wasn't controlled in quite the same way. Because of this ambiguity the W3C decided to deprecate/remove name attribute on those elements in favor for the unambigous id attribute in XHTML. This is also connected to another detail of XML however - only one attribute of any element may be of the type ID, which would not be the case if they let name stay on the element but corrected the ambiguity problems.

  • As the name attribute didn't work the same on those two sets of elements, if was best to remove on of them.

    • In short, for backwards compatibility you should use name and id attribute both, both set to the same value, for all elements except form controls if you use HTML4.01 or XHTML1.0 Transitional. If you use XHTML1.0 Strict or later you should use only id. For form controls you should use name for what you want the form to send to the server and for DOM0 access, and only use id for styling, DOM1-3 access or addressing reasons

    It depends where you are going to use them.

    Usually, id of an element is unique while multiple elements can share same name .

    Id is referenced as #here , name is referenced as [name=here] .

    They are not interchaneable, even if they sometimes appear to be.

    Name should only exist on form input fields. It is what that tag will cause the browser to pass in the submission as the name of the field. As Tomalak noted in a comment, DIV actually does not have a Name attribute.

    ID is the unique identifier for the DOM, to manipulate or refer to the tag; for example, in Javascript.

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