What’s good practice for <button>?
Can it replace <a> tag or is it only meant for forms?
What’s good practice for <button> ? Can it replace <a> tag or is it
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What’s good practice for <button>?
Can it replace <a> tag or is it only meant for forms?
A link links to something – at least it should! It is semantically wrong to do the following:
This should be replaced with a button, as it is there for that purpose – it works as a trigger for something the user (programmer) specifies; the purpose of a
<button type="button">element is thus not clear. In contrast, the purpose of a link is very clear – it should point somewhere!As HTML is a markup language, it does not matter all that much what you do, if you do not think SEO. You can achieve the same thing with a
<a>tag as you can with a<button>tag, like a<span>can act exactly as a<div>– semantically though, it is incorrect.