- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:07:16 -0400
S. Mike Dierken wrote: >>An empty <a> element is semantically meaningless. > > An <a> element can be a target of a link - it is addressable via a URI. Does > that count as meaningless? > > See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.1 > The destination anchor of a link may be an element within an HTML document. > The destination anchor must be given an anchor name and any URI addressing > this anchor must include the name as its fragment identifier. > > Destination anchors in HTML documents may be specified either by the A > element (naming it with the name attribute), or by any other element (naming > with the id attribute). The A element no longer has a name attribute in HTML 5; the 'id' attribute is a much better design, and is already well supported. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-a ~fantasai
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