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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?
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)).