Is it correct to use alt tag for an anchor link

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Is it correct to use alt tag for an anchor link  something like   lt a href     class  test  alt  Something  src  sfasfs   gt  lt  a gt

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I used title and it worked   The title attribute gives the title of the link  With one exception  it is purely advisory  The value is text  The exception is for style sheet links  where the title attribute defines alternative style sheet sets    lt a class  navbar-brand  href  http   www alberghierocastelnuovocilento gov it sito index php  title  sito dell Istituto Ancel Keys  gt A K  lt  a gt

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I m surprised to see all answers stating the use of alt attribute in a tag is not valid  This is absolutely wrong   Html does not block you using any attributes    lt a your-custom-attribute  value  gt Any attribute can be used lt  a gt    If you ask if it is semantically correct to use alt attribute in a then I will say   NO  It is used to set image description  lt img alt  image description    gt    It is a matter of what you d do with the attributes  Here s an example    x000D   x000D  a  after   x000D    content  attr color      attr can be used as content    x000D    display  block  x000D    color  white  x000D    background-color  blue  x000D    background-color  attr color      This won t work    x000D    display  none  x000D    x000D  a hover  after   x000D    display  block  x000D    x000D   hidden    x000D    display  none  x000D    x000D   lt a href     color  red  gt Hover me  lt  a gt  x000D   lt a href     color  red  hidden gt In some cases  it can be used to hide it  lt  a gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Again  if you ask if it is semantically correct to use custom attribute then I will say   No  Use data-  attributes for its semantic use     Oops  question was asked in 2013

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No  an alt attribute  it would be an attribute  not a tag  is not allowed for an a element in any HTML specification or draft  And it does not seem to be recognized by any browser either as having any significance   It   s a bit mystery why people try to use it  then  but the probable explanation is that they are doing so in analog with alt attribute for img elements  expecting to see a    tooltip    on mouseover  There are two things wrong with this  First  each element has attributes of its own  defined in the specs for each element  Second  the    tooltip    rendering of alt attributes in some ancient browsers is was a quirk or even a bug  rather than something to be expected  the alt attribute is supposed to be presented to the user if and only if the image itself is not presented  for whatever reason   To create a    tooltip     use the title attribute instead or  much better  Google for  CSS tooltips  and use CSS-based tooltips of your preference  they can be characterized as hidden    layers    that become visible on mouseover

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Such things are best answered by looking at the official specification    go to the specification  https   www w3 org TR html5  search for  a element   https   www w3 org TR html5 text-level-semantics html the-a-element check  Content attributes   which lists all allowed attributes for the a element         Global attributes     href   target   download   rel   hreflang   type     check the linked  Global attributes   https   www w3 org TR html5 dom html global-attributes   As you will see  the alt attribute is not allowed on the a element  Also you   d notice that the src attribute isn   t allowed either   By validating your HTML  errors like these are reported to you     Note that the above is for HTML5  which is W3C   s HTML standard from 2014  In 2016  HTML 5 1 became the next HTML standard  Finding the allowed attributes works in the same way  You   ll see that the a element can have another attribute in HTML 5 1  rev   You can find all HTML specifications  including the latest standard  on W3C   s HTML Current Status

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For anchors  you should use title instead  alt is not valid atribute of a  See http   w3schools com tags tag a asp

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title  is widely implemented in browsers  Try    lt a href     title  hello  gt asf lt  a gt

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You should use the title attribute for anchor tags if you wish to apply descriptive information similarly as you would for an alt attribute   The title attribute is valid on anchor tags and is serves no other purpose than providing information about the linked page   W3C recommends that the value of the title attribute should match the value of the title of the linked document but it s not mandatory   http   www w3 org MarkUp 1995-archive Elements A html    Alternatively  and likely to be more beneficial  you can use the ARIA accessibility attribute aria-label  not to be confused with aria-labeledby    aria-label serves the same function as the alt attribute does for images but for non-image elements and includes some measure of optimization since your optimizing for screen readers   http   www w3 org WAI GL wiki Using aria-label to provide labels for objects    If you want to describe an anchor tag though  it s usually appropriate to use the rel or rev tag but your limited to specific values  they should not be used for human readable descriptions   Rel serves to describe the relationship of the linked page to the current page    e g  if the linked page is next in a logical series it would be rel next   The rev attribute is essentially the reverse relationship of the rel attribute   Rev describes the relationship of the current page to the linked page   You can find a list of valid values here  http   microformats org wiki existing-rel-values

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