href=“[removed]” vs. href=“[removed]void(0)”

Question

Our web app is rendered totally on the browser.
The server only talks to the browser through JSON messaging.

As a result, we only need a single page for the app

Answer 1

Why have all the click events as a href links?

If instead you use span tags with :hover CSS and the appropriate onclick events, this will get around the issue completely.

Answer 2

This method seems ok in all browsers, if you set the onclick with a jQuery event:

<a href="javascript:;">Click me!</a>

As said before, href="#" with change the url hash and can trigger data re/load if you use a History (or ba-bbq) JS plugin.