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Asked: 2026-05-12T08:52:57+00:00

I’m running into an odd failure. It seems that if I have both an

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I’m running into an odd failure. It seems that if I have both an ID and NAME attribute on an anchor element, document.getElementById fails. If I remove the NAME, it works. I’m seeing this in Firefox 3.5(latest) but haven’t checked other browsers yet.

Is this a bug or intentional?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve never heard of such a bug, so I attempted to reproduce it and failed. This suggests that you have misdiagnosed the problem, or at least haven’t provided enough information about it.

    I tested with Firefox 3.5 and the following code.

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<title>Test of getElementById with named anchors</title>
<h1>Test of getElementById with named anchors</h1>

<h2><a name="one" id="one">First section</a></h2>
<p>The quick brown fox</p>

<h2><a name="two" id="second">Second section</a></h2>
<p>The quick brown fox</p>

<script type="text/javascript">    
if (document.getElementById('one')) {
        document.write("<p>First section found - id matches name<\/p>");
}

if (document.getElementById('second')) {
        document.write("<p>Second section found - id does not match name<\/p>");
}
</script>
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