- From: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:38:52 +0000
Hi,
>Since that's not actually a link (the href points to the javascript: URL
>scheme which is an ugly hack), what's wrong with:
>
><span id="print" class="link"></span>
How is an empty span less harmful than an empty a element without an href
attribute?
>Where the link class may be styled to look like a link with CSS, and then
>
>var elm = document.getElementById("print");
>elm.onclick = window.print;
>elm.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Print this page"));
For keyboard access, you need a tabindex="0" which has no effect in legacy
UAs, and you currently can't trigger the click event from keyboard in IE6 or
Firefox on a span element.
The javascript: URI scheme is a separate issue. If we replace the href with
"http://example.org/" -- or "mailto:me at example.org", or "data:,foo", or
whatever -- in my first example, I would still like to use an empty a
element in the markup.
Regards,
Simon Pieters
Received on Friday, 2 September 2005 10:38:52 UTC