- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:15:28 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 12:11a -0700 10/16/98, Murray Macdonald wrote: >Jukka Korpela wrote: > >> **) In AREA, the special keyword value NOHREF is allowed, too. > >I've always wondered why NOHREF isn't supported by <A>. It is often >desireable to have links that go nowhere to use as javascript event >sources. Some people use <A HREF="#"> but this is not ideal as it gets >added to the url in most UAs if clicked, not to mention that it >syntatically lacks elegance. Although events can easily be triggered >using the <DIV> tag, I still feel that the <A> tag should support >NOHREF. Comments? I enable onMouseOver for <INPUT TYPE=submit> by hiding an <A> *behind* it (well it works in IE anyway; not sure about Nav), so the attr value doesn't really matter because it won't be seen or clicked: <A HREF="#popcat" onMouseOver="window.status='Go to page you have selected from popup menu'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true"><INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE=" Go "></A><A NAME="popcat"> </A> Just an example to show that certain things are possible within the current spec. :) -Walter
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