- From: Matthew Brealey <webmaster@richinstyle.com>
- Date: 12 Oct 2000 15:45:29 -0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
You wrote:
>
> at "5.11.2 The link pseudo-classes: :link and :visited" in the CSS 2
> specs there is this sentence:
> "The document language determines which elements are hyperlink source
> anchors. For example, in HTML 4.0, the link pseudo-classes apply to A
> elements with an 'href' attribute."
>
> The question is whether it makes sense to extend this to the "onClick"
> attribute.
No.
The document language is HTML, not JavaScript. In addition, although
non-normative, it says 'link pseudo-classes apply to' A[href]. '
JavaScript is not the document language.
'onclick = script [CT]
The onclick event occurs when the pointing device button is clicked
over an element. This attribute may be used with most elements.'
Onclick is an event. Onclick is not a link. Onclick might do alert('You
clicked'). (The location property (or whatever its equivalent in VBs**t
is is not a link either).)
Received on Thursday, 12 October 2000 11:45:34 UTC