Can an html element have multiple ids?

Question

I understand that an id must be unique within an HTML/XHTML page.

My question is, for a given element, can I assign multiple ids to it?

Answer 1

No, you should use nested DIVs if you want to head down that path. Besides, even if you could, imagine the confusion it would cause when you run document.getElementByID(). What ID is it going to grab if there are multiple ones?

On a slightly related topic, you can add multiple classes to a DIV. See Eric Myers discussion at,

http://meyerweb.com/eric/articles/webrev/199802a.html