By: Scott Severtson
Another can of worms is naming form elements. For example, *never* name an element “action” under IE, since it conflicts with the built-in Form.action property.
View ArticleBy: Romain Dardour
Well i have great news :) it seems “content” is a reserved word too ! I had a div with an id of “content”, defining #content{ height:100px; } in the stylesheet does NOT work, whereas renaming the...
View ArticleBy: Romain Dardour
sorry, you should read “the div’s id” instead of “the div’is”. can’t even type properly :)
View ArticleBy: Kris
Contrary to Romain’s note on id=”content”: I have a site with just such a situation, and it works fine in IE6/Win, IE5.2/Mac, Safari, FF/Win, FF/Mac, Opera8/Win…
View ArticleBy: Andrew
Related to <a href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/08/29/reserved-id-values/#comment-6259" rel="nofollow">Ken's comment</a> here are a few more that could be a very common mistake,...
View ArticleBy: Justin Watt
Eric, I thought I'd add that the following three examples using <code>name="tags"</code> also cause the <code>id="tags"</code> printing bug in IE. <code><a...
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[...] w other reserved ID values that causes some sort of problems in IE/Win. Here, is a list of reserved ID values (Please note that I have tested only ID value  [...]
View ArticleBy: perv
I just recently ran into this problem and came across this article. In my case an ID named “contain” was the culprit. Any idea what this would have been conflicting with?
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[…] reserved ids and IE – don’t use “length”, “item”, “namedItem”, “tags”, “urns” as ids – see Eric Meyer’s entry on this watch our for trailing commas in javascript anon […]
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[…] in stumbling around trying to find some clue as to what the problem is, I came across this … It seems that id=”tags” ends up conflicting with some builtin function in IE that’s […]
View ArticleBy: Bernd Matzner
Hi, I just found another one: “box” Gave me a hard time in IE when I was doing some element offset calculations which were wrapped in a After renaming it, everything was fine again. Bernd
View ArticleBy: Matthew Barnes
Here’s another one: id=”version” Man this gave me headaches. A list of these conflicts published by MS would be nice. -Matthew
View ArticleBy: Ricardo Zea
And another one: id=”container”. For some reason it’s giving a JS error when using jQuery Kwicks widget and the widget is inside the main container with the id I mentioned above. If I change the name...
View ArticleBy: Clive Holloway
You can add “bottom” to the list – possibly not global, but definitely an issue for Facebook apps: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/210289425741983
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