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Am I missing something? callumacrae asked why I need IDs, and I explained how lots of JS libraries requiere HTML IDs for them to work. I'm just answering his question.

EXreaction's solution is pretty good, it will work for me, unless JS is disabled, in that case I'm not sure what would happen.

The carousel uses ID, check the first line: <div id="myCarousel" class="carousel slide"> If you remove id="myCarousel" it won't work. I know it could probably be rewritten to work without IDs but that's how most of these libraries work, this is the standard, not the exc...

Check my previous posts on this thread, that's what I've been discussing. The example given was JS charts and image carousels.

Why not? In most of these JS libraries you really need an unique identifier. Not having a way to be sure it's unique is asking for trouble.

That's a very interesting way to solve it. Thanks.

I see. As brunoais said, why is the id required? Javascript selectors should work fine on either the id, class, data, or other parameters, are you sure these libraries only work off of specific id tags (could you link to an example if one does)? I believe you can use the current custom bbcode syste...

Javascript, as I mentioned, the main use would be any library that uses element ID. JS charts, JS galleries, etc, there're a lot of uses for it.

You're right, I probabbly didn't make myself clear. Yes, I mean something like the second example. For example, let's say a div: [div=1]content[/div] Which could output something like: <div id="1">content</div> With this I can use "1" as div ID to trigger an event with javascript...

Are you talking about altering phpBB's code? how's that trivial?

The point of a RFC like that is exactly not doing that.