Re: The href attribute

This is addressed at
https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/main/FAQ.md#html-should-support-href-on-any-element


Bruce

On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 15:04, Lea Verou <lea@verou.me> wrote:

> If memory serves, "href as a global attribute" was actually part of the
> now defunct XHTML 2. There was no implementer interest, due to backwards
> compat issues.
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> Lea Verou ✿ http://lea.verou.me ✿ Twitter & elsewhere: @leaverou
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> On 2Dec, 2020, at 17:53, Tom de Visser <tom_devisser@icloud.com> wrote:
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> Hey there,
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> Just a quick idea that I think will really improve HTML markup. I haven’t
> found any caveats myself, but I don’t know if it’s possible. I’m not a
> super experienced developer, but I thought I’d give this a shot.
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> You often use anchor tags to wrap list items or images and you end up with
> a lot of messy markup tags, like <ul><li><a>Home …
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> Is it possible to add href to more elements? So you’d get things like <li
> href=“”> or <img href=“”>?
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> Thanks for considering!
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