http://www.sweetvision.com/2009/07/09/quick-tip-dont-use-links-with-javascript-unless-the-link-goes-some-where/ Javascript and other web programming topics Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:04:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.sweetvision.com/2009/07/09/quick-tip-dont-use-links-with-javascript-unless-the-link-goes-some-where/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Kelly Anderson Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:04:45 +0000 http://www.sweetvision.com/?p=121#comment-87 @Paul I agree with you when it is an anchor, as it indeed goes some where. I am not sure that I agree with the "tabs or sliders" bit. Could you expand on how a link is more useful in the case of a tab or slider than say a or ? I have run into so many situations where a link with just a hash and some JavaScript ends up scrolling the page to the top of the page, there by taking the user away from the control they were interacting with. A specific case was a control that had been working fine until IE8 came out, and something about the JS, the HTML and IE8 made it follow the anchor. @Paul I agree with you when it is an anchor, as it indeed goes some where. I am not sure that I agree with the “tabs or sliders” bit. Could you expand on how a link is more useful in the case of a tab or slider than say a or ? I have run into so many situations where a link with just a hash and some JavaScript ends up scrolling the page to the top of the page, there by taking the user away from the control they were interacting with. A specific case was a control that had been working fine until IE8 came out, and something about the JS, the HTML and IE8 made it follow the anchor.

]]> http://www.sweetvision.com/2009/07/09/quick-tip-dont-use-links-with-javascript-unless-the-link-goes-some-where/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Paul Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:54:45 +0000 http://www.sweetvision.com/?p=121#comment-86 While I totally agree with you in principal, links also cause actions on pages (namely, moving to named anchors). Similarly, they can be used to move content, like tabs or sliders. For those instances, links with a bit of javascript aid makes sense. Where they don't make sense is wrapping a button image in an <a>. While I totally agree with you in principal, links also cause actions on pages (namely, moving to named anchors). Similarly, they can be used to move content, like tabs or sliders. For those instances, links with a bit of javascript aid makes sense. Where they don’t make sense is wrapping a button image in an .

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