The audacity to do such a thing…
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The reason I hate HTML: I've seen smart, reasonable people do this with IDs, and I'm not 100% sure they're wrong.
That’s because it makes sense when dynamically creating HTML. HTML is not a programming language, it’s simply markup - so if you want to generate some block of HTML in a loop and later access that block of HTML in JS (e.g. to interact with the UI separate from creating it in the first place), it’s a completely reasonable thing to do.
Agreed.
Also, HTML is only meant to be read by a browser's interpreter which has no problem keeping track of variable names.
So long as the ID never repeats, it's cool