Jan 31, 2011 · It's a link that links to nowhere essentially (it just adds "#" onto the URL). It's used for a number of different reasons. For instance, if you're using some sort of JavaScript/jQuery …

Nov 24, 2013 · 1 Its stand for Hypertext Reference . The href attribute specifies the URL of the page the link goes to. If the href attribute is not present, the tag is not a hyperlink.

Aug 27, 2010 · I understand what the "href" attribute in the anchor tag (<a />) is for, but what does the "h" stand for?

Dec 28, 2016 · The OP's question seems to be about how to add an href to an existing a tag (I basically want to add a href attribute to <a></a> dynamically). However, this answer seems to …

Nov 19, 2025 · An <a> element is invalid HTML unless it has either an href or name attribute. If you want it to render correctly as a link (ie underlined, hand pointer, etc), then it will only do so …

Jul 20, 2016 · An <a> element without an [href] attribute is still valid. As far as semantics and styling is concerned, the <a> element isn't a link (:link) unless it has an [href] attribute. A side …

The href attribute handler doesn't get the event object, so the handler doesn't implicitly see which link was the source. You can add it in onclick handler, which fires before the href is followed:

Possible Duplicate: Difference between SRC and HREF When writing html/css, it seems like these all do the exact same thing. Obviously this is not the case, and if you 'href' when you're …

You could try an "onclick" event inside the LI tag, and change the "location.href" as in javascript. You could also try placing the li tags within the a tags, however this is probably not valid HTML.

Current HTML5 validators are outdated in this respect (see bug report with comments). It will remain possible to escape ampersands in attribute values, but apart from validation with …