Browser ID Support Test

Most modern browsers support the "id" attribute on any element as an equivalent to "name" on "a" elements. All recent versions of the HTML and XHTML specifications require this behavior, and the XHTML 1.1 specification removes the "name" attribute from the "a" and "map" elements. (For www.python.org and the Python documentation, we only care about the "a" element.)

This page contains a test for your browsers support for the "id" attribute on an element which never supported the "name" attribute. If the test fails, please send me an email and let me know; be sure to tell me what browser you're using, including the version of the browser software and the host operating system. (If your browser isn't listed in the results, but passes, I'd appreciate an email as well; I'll update the list of results as I hear from people.)

There is a very short paragraph at the end of this document which contains a link to the first paragraph of this document.

Test Your Browser

1. Make sure your browser window does not show the short paragraph at the end. (There's a long blank area below these instructions, so it shouldn't be difficult to achieve this.)
2. Scroll down to the end of the page so you do see the last paragraph. It's quite short.
3. Click on the link in that paragraph.
4. If the browser scrolls the text back up so the first paragraph is near the top of the display area, your browser passed the test.

The Results

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This is the short paragraph. Click on this link.