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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T19:09:50+00:00 2026-05-26T19:09:50+00:00

If I make an anchor element and don’t want text within it, because I’m

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If I make an anchor element and don’t want text within it, because I’m gonna to css-i-fy it with a nice image and a hover-effect…
I wonder if it is legal to write <a id="hoverimage" href="google.com" />
validome.org & validator.w3.org say YES ?

BTW: anyone knows an equivalent to alt element for this case?

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    2026-05-26T19:09:50+00:00Added an answer on May 26, 2026 at 7:09 pm

    It is valid in XHTML. It is not HTML-Compatible so likely to break in a document served as text/html. Having a link with no content is bad practise (background images are not content (which is why there is no equivalent to the alt attribute)).

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