An <a> without an href is semantically not a link. It's basically a <span>, even if it has an onclick handler that navigates the user. It won't receive keyboard focus, and screenreaders probably* won't announce it as a link. #a11y *scottohara.me/note/2019/07/1…

If you're using an hrefless <a> to represent where a link might go, such as the current page in a list of breadcrumbs, this might be fine. But if you want your link to behave like a link, you should have an href.

I didn’t know it was possible to have an <a> tag without an href. 😲 I always put them in for sure, though.

An hrefless <a> is technically valid HTML! Whether it's useful is a whole different story 😅

When the name or id attributes of the A element are set, the element defines an anchor that may be the destination of other links.