html - What does href stand for? - Stack Overflow After writing html for couple of years I realized that I don't really know why the href attribute is named "href" The HTML Recomendation does not shed light on the subject by saying : This attribute specifies the location of a Web resource, thus defining a link between the current element (the source anchor) and the destination anchor defined
html - what does link href=# do? - Stack Overflow href = uri This attribute specifies the location of a Web resource, thus defining a link between the current element (the source anchor) and the destination anchor defined by this attribute Share
html - lt;a href=#. . . gt; link not working - Stack Overflow Wow, thanks for pointing that out OP Apparently Mozilla Firefox doesn't associate the id attribute with a location in the HTML Document for elements other than <a> but uses the name attribute instead, and Google Chrome does exactly the opposite
html - Differences between url, src, and href - Stack Overflow Difference between SRC and HREF When writing html css, it seems like these all do the exact same thing Obviously this is not the case, and if you 'href' when you're supposed to 'src' you're going to have a bad time But my question is, is there an easy way to remember which ones do which, and when they are used?
What does javascript:void (0) mean? - Stack Overflow href="#" can lead to nasty surprises - like aborted xhr requests, that happen to be called on a click to that link I recently had a hard time debugging a website which aborted oidc login requested, if the user happened to be in an address that wasn't the root of the site # href caused it to reload the address before xhr request got completed
html - Do I encode ampersands in lt;a href. . . gt;? - Stack Overflow You have two standards concerning URLs in links (<a href) The first standard is RFC 1866 (HTML 2 0) where in "3 2 1 Data Characters" you can read the characters which need to be escaped when used as the value for an HTML attribute