- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:40:46 +0200
- To: Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes@stommepoes.nl>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Mallory van Achterberg, Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:59:11 +0200: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 03:47:01PM +0200, Willem-Siebe Spoelstra wrote: >> 4) What I also don't understand is why no <a> is being used on the current >> page list item, see this comment: >> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22739#c5 > An a without an href is... what, exactly? Per the spec: [1] “If the a element has no href attribute, then the element represents a placeholder for where a link might otherwise have been placed, if it had been relevant, consisting of just the element's contents.” And: [2] “The href attribute on a and area elements is not required; when those elements do not have href attributes they do not create hyperlinks.” > Unfocusable in most browsers > and meaningless. Why would you try to trick users into thinking that > there's a link there, when nothing happens when they click it?? Why would they click it, when they are not links? An a element without @href is more like a span element. It hurts no one. [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element [2] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/links.html#links-created-by-a-and-area-elements -- leif halvard silli
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