27047 2014-10-14 14:33:54 +0000 There should be a difference between a having an href attribute and a not having an href attribute. See bug 27022 comment 0. 2014-11-26 20:39:13 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-a-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk crimsteam ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 113108 0 contributor 2014-10-14 14:33:54 +0000 Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-a-element Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-a-element Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ Comment: There should be a difference between a having an href attribute and a not having an href attribute. See bug 27022 comment 0. Posted from: 46.127.136.57 by annevk@annevk.nl User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 113149 1 ian 2014-10-14 21:28:17 +0000 I don't understand. There already is a difference; one has a hyperlink and the other not. What difference do you want? 113169 2 annevk 2014-10-15 07:14:23 +0000 As the linked comment says, the situation is that HTML invokes "set the input" whenever href changes, even removed, with the empty string argument. However, the empty string is sufficient to get a URL and <a>.href should not return a URL if href="" is missing. 113234 3 ian 2014-10-15 18:32:15 +0000 So what do I set the input to then, when the attribute is missing? 113286 4 annevk 2014-10-16 09:53:41 +0000 I guess I'll make null work as a special value that does the right thing. 113299 5 annevk 2014-10-16 12:03:14 +0000 https://github.com/whatwg/url/commit/ac1df219c1d5b9381eca43ec432d4103c2505eac 115560 6 contributor 2014-11-26 20:39:13 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8858. Check-in comment: removing an href='' attribute affects URLUtils differently than setting it to ''. https://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8857&to=8858