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lights0123 on April 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Links are not buttons (2013)

And never use href="#" or href="javascript:void(0)": middle-clicking on it will lead to unexpected results.

I'm looking at you, Hacker News

frosted-flakes on April 10, 2021 [–]

Yeah, the voting and collapse buttons should really be actual buttons, not links. It's fairly trivial to make buttons look like links if that's the desired effect.

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