Traversal » Web Standards http://traversal.com.au Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:59:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Markup Conventions http://traversal.com.au/blog/2007/05/14/markup-conventions/ http://traversal.com.au/blog/2007/05/14/markup-conventions/#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 04:27:22 +0000 Travis Hensgen http://mondea.com.au/blog/?p=3 While hardly earth shattering, one useful XHTML convention I’ve been using lately is to always make the id attribute the first on a tag, and make the class attribute the last. The most common case that I need both attributes is for input tags (and usually because IE 6 doesn’t support attribute-selectors), for example:


<input id="first-name" name="first-name" type="text" classic="text" />

Using this convention also means I can place the id and the name adjacent to each other – also handy. While this may not be the preferred convention for everyone, I find it’s just one more thing that helps me read that code in 6 months time – if I stick to it, it’s pretty quick for my eye to scan to that all-important information.

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