[thelist] href=# versus href=JavaScript.....

[Anthony Baratta]

At 06:44 PM 2/21/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>I thought href=# was the more proper of the two (considering '#' is used for
>an inline anchor); and --not that this validates the statement-- I've
>watched browsers puke on a href=javascript: call, and that's outside the
>cases where javascript is just turned off ...
>
>(curiously) why does it irk you so?

Because of the way I think the browser works. Its trying to interpret the 
href and go "somewhere", yet you're trying to using Javascript to do 
something else, either related to another file or something with the 
current page. This IMHO leads to confusion. Too many times have I seen 
pages screwed up because of this.

What I'm not saying is that anchors are bad. I just think that if the HREF 
is not designed to go to another page or anchor on the same page - you 
shouldn't be using href=# as a place holder for "go no where". I have come 
to the conclusion that its just sloppy coding.

Am I off base?

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Anthony Baratta
President
Keyboard Jockeys