Maybe you have an aversion to underlines. So I’ve started specifically styling anchors with the :link pseudo-class to ensure I’m not stepping on my toes in other parts of our platform. using onclick or document.addEventListener and they'll work as usual. The trick here was to add tabindex. A href attribute is the required attribute of the tag. Tutorials, references, and examples are constantly reviewed to avoid errors, but we cannot warrant full correctness of all content. Obviously the menu can be opened only by elements that can receive focus, such as buttons.
Now, let’s use the state-altering powers we learned in the last section to make our faux-button more interactive.
On a high level, one could consider the anchor element as “action” element – as denoted by the tag. links to visited pages, and the
We’ve gone into pretty great depth on style links, but there is one more component to them that we cannot ignore: the cursor.
If you want to report an error, or if you want to make a suggestion, do not hesitate to send us an e-mail: W3Schools is optimized for learning, testing, and training. That's a good thing! We’re pretty used to the standard black arrow: We can change the arrow to a hand pointer on it’s hover (:hover) state so that it’s easier to see that the link indicates it is an interactive element: Whew, that’s much nicer! In my imaginary example there, the :visited style would override the :hover style, which is highly unlikely that is what you want.
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Now we’re cooking with gas! any focusable element), then you don't even need this!.
I hope you found this useful. It sometimes needs to be explicitly stated–definitely not suggesting a change, though I’m sure there are use cases for it. A link becomes active when you click on it. MailChimp: Grow sales with Customer Journey Smarts.
There are CSS variations that all have a use and reason – https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_cursor.asp – is a helpful tool. Like other HTML elements, CSS can add background colors and padding to links that allow us to create the appearance of a button. This page shows how to make HTML button links with onclick and href using the