[TYPO3-dev] which naming scheme for a CSS XHTML id

[Robert Markula]

Hi Christopher!

Christopher wrote:
[...]
> Can you provide a little bit more information about how the ids will
> be used? It's hard to suggest a best practice without knowing a little
> more about what you're trying to achieve. Will the ids be used just on
> form controls for accessibility reasons? Or is the intent to use them
> on many elements for css styling?

Unique ID's are needed for the correct mapping of labels to the 
corresponding fields. That's currently all.

[...]
> 1. Any given record already _has_ a uniqe id in the database, so why
> not use that number in any required ids instead of a new numbering
> system?

No problem. Since the only use I can currently think of (and currently 
need) is that a label can be clearly assigned to a specific field, the 
naming scheme is not important. The only important thing is that the id 
is unique.
But maybe there is another use of unique id's that would benefit from a 
specific naming scheme, that's why I asked for opinions in the 
tt_products newsgroup.

> 2. It may be worthwhile to make the id format TS-configurable

Can you think of other uses for unique id's?

Cheers,
Ro