The "id" attribute can be used to identify anchor points instead of the older "name" attribute which is now considered obsolete in HTML version 5 and Extensible HTML or XHTML.

An SEO asked Google's John Mueller if HTML ID attributes can help with SEO and John said "no" on Twitter. To be honest, it is a bit hard to understand the question because of the english, but I am ...

Ryan Boudreaux continues his tutorial on getting acquainted with jQuery by showing you how to get objects by ID and Class selectors and by Tag and Attribute.