Should I make HTML Anchors with 'name' or 'id'?

Question

When one wants to refer to some part of a webpage with the \"http://example.com/#foo\" method, should one use

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Answer 1

You shouldn’t use

Foo Title

in any flavor of HTML served as text/html, because the XML empty element syntax isn’t supported in text/html. However,

Foo Title

is OK in HTML4. It is not valid in HTML5 as currently drafted.

Foo Title

is OK in both HTML4 and HTML5. This won’t work in Netscape 4, but you’ll probably use a dozen other features that don’t work in Netscape 4.