- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:34:17 +0200
*Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>*:
>
> So what does an <a> element with no href="" represent? Nothing? Or I
> guess we could make the href="" attribute required.
I frequently use and advice to do navigation lists like this:
<div><map id="nav"><ul>
<li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
...
<li><a>Current page</a></li>
...
<li><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></li>
</ul></map></div>
(I use 'map', because 'menu' is deprecated, and 'div', because in HTML4S
'map' cannot be a child of 'body'---but let's not get distracted.)
The current page should not link to itself, but for consistency (and
styling) I like to keep the 'a' element instance, just without an 'href'
attribute. Elsewhere I also use 'a' instead of 'span', because it's IMHO
equally meaningful, but shorter. So, no, I don't think 'href' should be
required for 'a'.
Received on Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:34:17 UTC