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Is it valid HTML to have an anchor tag without href and without name? In our app we have some delete links which are disabled (hence no href attribute), but still shown to the user.
I am posting this question on behalf of Joshua Muheim which was asked in the comments of a related question. It is very similar to the original question, but different enough that I felt it was worthwhile to open it as a separate question.
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The tag is fine to use without an href attribute. Contrary to many of the answers here, there are actually standard reasons for creating an anchor when there is no href. Semantically, "a" means an anchor or a link. If you use it for anything following that meaning, then you are fine.
<a>: The Anchor element. The <a> HTML element (or anchor element), with its href attribute, creates a hyperlink to web pages, files, email addresses, locations in the same page, or anything else a URL can address.
An anchor name is the value of either the name or id attribute when used in the context of anchors. Anchor names must observe the following rules: Uniqueness: Anchor names must be unique within a document. Anchor names that differ only in case may not appear in the same document.
You can create a link to a named anchor by using the name attribute (or the id attribute).
Yes it's valid, the HTML spec says:
If the
aelement has nohrefattribute, then the element represents a placeholder for where a link might otherwise have been placed, if it had been relevant, consisting of just the element's contents.
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