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Unbreaking link text Steve Swift 05-23-2007
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Posted by Steve Swift on May 23, 2007, 9:45 am
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Given a choice between:

1. <A HREF=z><NOBR>Non breaking link</NOBR></A>
2. <NOBR><A HREF=z>Non breaking link</A></NOBR>

... a nothing else; absolutely nothing else, is there any reason to
chose one in preference to the other? There's no visible difference in
any browser that I've tried.

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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on May 23, 2007, 10:20 am
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Scripsit Steve Swift:

> Given a choice between:
>
> 1. <A HREF=z><NOBR>Non breaking link</NOBR></A>
> 2. <NOBR><A HREF=z>Non breaking link</A></NOBR>
>
> ... a nothing else; absolutely nothing else, is there any reason to
> chose one in preference to the other?

Hardly. Well, there's a slight (imaginary) chance that some software
analyzes links in a manner that gets disturbed by extra markup inside the A
element, so when forced to choose, I'd probably choose option 2.

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Posted by Jim Moe on May 23, 2007, 2:11 pm
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Steve Swift wrote:
> Given a choice between:
>
> 1. <A HREF=z><NOBR>Non breaking link</NOBR></A>
> 2. <NOBR><A HREF=z>Non breaking link</A></NOBR>
>
> ... a nothing else; absolutely nothing else, is there any reason to
> chose one in preference to the other?
>
Technically, no.
I'd prefer the first since it links the whole context of the link text,
formatting and all.
It would be better to create a style for non-wrapping link text rather
than do that inline. Likely you do this in more than one place, yes?

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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on May 25, 2007, 12:52 pm
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Steve Swift wrote:
> Given a choice between:
>
> 1. <A HREF=z><NOBR>Non breaking link</NOBR></A>
> 2. <NOBR><A HREF=z>Non breaking link</A></NOBR>
>
> ... a nothing else; absolutely nothing else, is there any reason to
> chose one in preference to the other? There's no visible difference in
> any browser that I've tried.
>

I like neither and prefer CSS:

A { white-space: nowrap; }

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Take care,

Jonathan
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