validating href="#"
I was updating some pages on one of my sites which validated to html specs, but thought i'd go up tp XHTML as its only adding slashes on img, meta and inut tags etc.
anyways, <a href="#" onmouseover ....' wont validate, but if i take the href="#" <a mouseover ...'off it will, but NS4.7 doesn't support the anchor tag as mouseover (a).
Anyone know a work around for XHTML validation (Transitional).
and can anyone tell me if a mouseover tag without the href part works on mac or any other browser, I only have NS4.7, Opera6 and IE5.5 and NS6 but can't try NS6 as have to much open
Suzanne posted this at 05:10 — 26th August 2002.
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If you're using href="#" because of DHTML, you can put non-DHTML help pages in the href (I do this on my old zerocattle.com/ site, if you mouseover a red term it's a definition, for people without JavaScript installed, it's a link to a page of terms).
If you're using it for a popup window and such, again, put a valid link in the href: zerocattle.com/examples/popUp.html
What are you using it for?
Busy posted this at 05:24 — 26th August 2002.
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http://www.munchtech.com/models/pic01.html the "rear" "under" and "motor" are the mouseovers, none are links
Suzanne posted this at 07:49 — 26th August 2002.
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Think about how it would work with JavaScript off...
Then put links in. Using return: false; in the onclick or onmouseover portion will prevent that from working. Additionally, for those without JavaScript on or functioning, would be able to view the images. So link to the images themselves in the href, which solves your problem and improves your accessibility many times over.
Edited to add: if you link to a static page with the surround working, that would keep the look and feel for the other people as well.
Suzanne posted this at 07:52 — 26th August 2002.
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Another solution is a bit of a hack, using the pseudo-element :hover for things other than a -- but really, you don't want to bother with that sort of thing when you can make it valid and accessible so easily.
ROB posted this at 16:11 — 26th August 2002.
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to prevent an anchor from being a link i usually do:
Busy posted this at 23:09 — 26th August 2002.
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Thanks Suzanne and Rob
Busy posted this at 03:51 — 31st August 2002.
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I had another look at my pages today and the weird thing is
dk01 posted this at 22:29 — 1st September 2002.
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That is true because xhtml says no caps in html attribs.
-dk
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