[RESOLVED] Empty anchor element

[Taurus]

Is the empty anchor valid HTML element?

<a href="/" id="home-link" title="Home"></a>

Originally code was

<div id="header">

<a href="/" id="home-link">Home</a>

</div>

but I modified it, since dont want display 'Home' text.

[rpgfan3233]

Yes, it is valid HTML. Any element that can contain text doesn't necessarily need text.

Edit: You should note that not all browsers can find them, however. An excerpt from the HTML4 recommendation (scroll up a little bit in the document to see it in green text):

Note. User agents should be able to find anchors created by empty A elements, but some fail to do so. For example, some user agents may not find the "empty-anchor" in the following HTML fragment:

<A name="empty-anchor"></A>
<EM>...some HTML...</EM>
<A href="#empty-anchor">Link to empty anchor</A>