How do I style a span to look like a link without using javascript?

Question

For my website I will need to use instead of , because I am using mostly ajax and thus instead of links I have onclick ajax event

Answer 1

Note that if your website is public and you are counting on search engines to crawl your site, you lose a lot by leaving out links without href since spiders have nothing to grab on while crawling your page.

You should use a complete link - in case your javascript breaks down the user is still able to navigate through pages:

Link

than you can disable the link with jquery by using preventDefault() - and you totally separated base html and the javascript part, meaning your site is still usable without javascript on.

Than you don't need to bother with span hover and anything - but just for the sake of it

span:hover {
cursor:pointer;
}

will enable hover hand cursor on hovered span.