[whatwg] [html5] 2.6.1. The a element

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> > >
> > > Shouldn't the XML model (and therefore the specification) allow 
> > > nested links?
> > 
> > I don't know, what would it mean? What would the DOM events processing 
> > model be?
> 
> Perhaps we could ask the XLink WG (or XML Core, or whatever) and the 
> HTML WG (XHTML 2)...

I volunteer you for that task. :-P In the meantime...


> > Fair enough. So what does an <a> element with no href="" represent? 
> > Nothing? Or I guess we could make the href="" attribute required.
> 
> With nothing it represents a semantically meaningless element, like 
> SPAN. Making the HREF attribute required seems like a good thing to do.

Okie dokie.

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