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Posted by Mitja Trampus on 09/26/11 11:33
Richard Thoms wrote:
> Mark Parnell wrote:
>
>> In our last episode, Richard Thoms <rdthoms@bellsouth.net> pronounced to
>> alt.html:
>>
>>> The second link has no href in it (is that legal?)
>>> /.../ [:hover does not work]
>> That's because without a href attribute it's not a link. It's just an
>> anchor.
>
> I think this is the key to the problem. No href means no link, just an
> anchor. I develop using firefox and everthing looked great there but
> then when I test with IE I got unexpected results. Perhaps it is
> firefox which has a bug and is letting this sneak through.
Nono, check the specs, it's IE that's rusty.
The solution to your problem is to use something along the
lines of
<a
href="foo.html"
onclick="window.open('foo.html'); return false"
>
instead of just
<a onclick="window.open('foo.html')">
This solves your problem (a is now a "proper" link and IE
will support :hover on it) as well as another one: your
current solution does not work for users without JS, whereas
the one with href does.
WRT popup-blockers: No, they're smart enough not to block
popups triggered by onclick events, so I wouldn't worry
about that.
What I'd consider more is whether a popup is perhaps still
more of a nuisance to the user than an elegant solution.
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