My point about the <a> without an href attribute wasn't about anchors, but still links. Imagine something like this:
<a>You can find your purchased download here.</a>
This would create the link as a placeholder, which might be useful for visual reasons, but it wouldn't yet be an active control. Then, based on some sort of event, you could make it active by giving it a valid href value using Javascript.
It's not a common pattern, but it's a completely one.
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I used "anchors" for all <a> elements, perhaps the wording wasn't clear but I was talking about <a name="" would then be a warning in addition to allowing for <a>some text</a> to be a warning rather than an error (just in case you did want to do something like you suggest).
I think we are in agreement! lol!
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My point about the
<a>without anhrefattribute wasn't about anchors, but still links. Imagine something like this:This would create the link as a placeholder, which might be useful for visual reasons, but it wouldn't yet be an active control. Then, based on some sort of event, you could make it active by giving it a valid
hrefvalue using Javascript.It's not a common pattern, but it's a completely one.
I used "anchors" for all
<a>elements, perhaps the wording wasn't clear but I was talking about<a name=""would then be a warning in addition to allowing for<a>some text</a>to be a warning rather than an error (just in case you did want to do something like you suggest).I think we are in agreement! lol!