What is the Difference between onclick and href="[removed]function name?

Question

Is there any difference between

1 : Link1

and

2 : 

        

Answer 1

If your element is not actually supposed to link the user someplace, don't make it an anchor element. If you're using tags just to get the underline/cursor change - don't. Use CSS on a (or other element) instead.

span.link {
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: blue;
  cursor: pointer;
}

Keep your HTML semantic and use anchor elements only when you want to link the user somewhere.