Comments on: Javascript href Voids and More http://blindsignals.com/2009/07/javascript-href-voids-and-more/ Web Development, Business, and Life Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:47:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: chelfers http://blindsignals.com/2009/07/javascript-href-voids-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-76 chelfers Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:02:08 +0000 http://blindsignals.com/?p=142#comment-76 There is no official set standard, what a lot of people do is set a url to an actual page to perform the same function as the javascript. ( check the last example above ), or you could do: [code lang="html"] .js_enabled { display: none; } <a href="#" class="js_enabled" rel="nofollow">link</a> <noscript> <span class="fake_link">link</span> <noscript> [/code] and set a script to change the js_enabled class to remove the display property which of course would only work if javascript was enabled. There is no official set standard, what a lot of people do is set a url to an actual page to perform the same function as the javascript. ( check the last example above ), or you could do:

.js_enabled { display: none; }

<a href="#" class="js_enabled" rel="nofollow">link</a>

<noscript>
  <span class="fake_link">link</span>
<noscript>

and set a script to change the js_enabled class to remove the display property which of course would only work if javascript was enabled.

]]> By: David http://blindsignals.com/2009/07/javascript-href-voids-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-75 David Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:50:52 +0000 http://blindsignals.com/?p=142#comment-75 I have spent the best of today researching articles on this topic and I am still searching for some sense on it. The problem with the href="#" link is that when a user clicks on the link with Javascript disabled, they get redirected to the top of the current page, which is confusing. I have a set of javascript links on a page that display or hide some blocks of text. If javascript is disabled, I just want the link to do nothing. Yes, I could link some Please-enable-Javascript.html page, but that is equally annoying. What is the "official" standards-compliant way to have a link that just does nothing when the user clicks on it with javascript disabled? David I have spent the best of today researching articles on this topic and I am still searching for some sense on it. The problem with the href="#" link is that when a user clicks on the link with Javascript disabled, they get redirected to the top of the current page, which is confusing. I have a set of javascript links on a page that display or hide some blocks of text. If javascript is disabled, I just want the link to do nothing. Yes, I could link some Please-enable-Javascript.html page, but that is equally annoying.

What is the "official" standards-compliant way to have a link that just does nothing when the user clicks on it with javascript disabled?

David

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