Sent by Andy Budd on 29 January 2005 05:05
Christian Heilmann wrote:
> Please don't. Javascript links are dead markup, and so are links
> without an href. We tried for years now to keep HTML clean and remove
> all the inline Javascripts the "DHTML mania" beginning of the
> millenium gave us, now we repeat the same mistake to cater for CSS
> effects...
> If the link is to point nowhere, don't use a link, but another
> element.
I couldn't agree more. Fix the problem, not the symptoms.
If the element doesn't link to an external page or an anchor within the
page then don't use an anchor link.
I actually question the use of CSS to create such behaviours as they
seem more suited to JavaScript. There are a number of way you could do
this using JS. For instance if you wanted to use a link, it could point
to a page with your tool tip text. However if the user has JS enabled
you could change the behaviour of the link (make it null) and display
the text as a tooltip. Alternatively with JS you could dynamically add
the question marks, making them hoverable but not clickable. I guess
you could even add a null link using JS if you wanted as at least it
wouldn't be in the markup, so would keep your HTML clean of meaningless
code.
Andy Budd
http://www.message.uk.com/
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