HTML Anchors with name or id?

[Marius]

When I want to refer to some part of a webpage with the "example.com/page#Mark"-method, should I use:

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<h3><a name="foo"/>Mark Title</h3>

Or:

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<h3 id="Mark">Mark Title</h3>

I know that both work, but are they equal, or do they have semantic differences?

Hi
In HTML5 the <a> element has no name attribute.
My vote is for ID.

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<a href="#Mark">Link Text</a>
... Content ...
<span id="Mark">Mark Title</span>

You can use this not only with spans but with divs or even table cells, and then you have access in CSS to the :target pseudo-class on the element.