PARSING ERROR - Can't use href on <a> tag ??? [RDI 2.49]

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Attribute href not allowed on element a at this point.

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></button><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="mejs-volume-slider" aria-label="Curseur de volume" aria-valuemi…max="100" aria-valuenow="80" aria-valuetext="80%" role="slider" tabindex="0" style="display: none;"><span

Attributes for element a: Global attributes

href — Address of the hyperlink target — Browsing context for hyperlink navigation download — Whether to download the resource instead of navigating to it, and its filename if so ping — URLs to ping rel — Relationship between the location in the document containing the hyperlink and the destination resource hreflang — Language of the linked resource type — Hint for the type of the referenced resource referrerpolicy — Referrer policy for fetches initiated by the element

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is a common alternative which might arguably be less bad. However you must remember to return false from your onclick event handler to prevent the link being followed and scrolling up to the top of the page.

In some cases there may be an actual useful place to point the link to. For example if you have a control you can click on that opens up a previously-hidden

, it makes some sense to use to link to it. Or if there is a non-JavaScript way of doing the same thing (for example, ‘thispage.php?show=foo’ that sets foo visible to begin with), you can link to that.

Otherwise, if a link points only to some script, it is not really a link and should not be marked up as such. The usual approach would be to add the onclick to a ,

, or an without an href and style it in some way to make it clear you can click on it. This is what StackOverflow [did at the time of writing; now it uses href="#"].

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