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seanied
seanied

Reputation: 33

what does <a href="#!"> do?

I've come across the following links:

<a href="#!">

<a href="#!" class="mob-trigger" data-target="#mob-commercial">

In relation to the href, what does the addition of the exclamation mean?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5641

Answers (2)

Bubble Hacker
Bubble Hacker

Reputation: 6723

Notice in the code you asked about that you also have the data-target="#mob-commercial".

So what is happening? the href="#!" is used as a hack to call a javascript function that uses the data-target attribute when pressed on the <a> tag instead of the <button> tag which is usually used.

Upvotes: 2

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943209

Technically, it means "Link to the element with id="!". You can see it working in this demo.

In practise, it is probably being used as a hack to have a link without actually linking to anything, so that JavaScript can be bound to it. It should probably be replaced with a <button type="button">.

Upvotes: 0

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