`a` tags without `href` generate a navigation event about browser

[Fresheyeball]

for anyone here looking to get past this thing. The following delivers the desired behavior

onClickAnchor :: msg -> List (Attribute msg)
onClickAnchor msg = [ preventDefaultOn "click" <| Json.succeed (msg,True), href "#" ]

[domenkozar]

For the record, it maps to External ""

[Pilatch]

@sporto If you want to test all sorts of behaviors out, I recommend this gist https://gist.github.com/Pilatch/c1b6e5d925c6479a0b2e53892fa2dca3

I have discovered the culprit, and it's not in elm/browser. It's in elm/virtual-dom.

Pull request created for the fix - elm/virtual-dom#142

[ChristophP]

A good example for that is an in-page-anchor.

<a href="#someAnchor">Click here to jump to anchor</a>

<!-- An anchor on the page without href -->
<a name="someAnchor"></a>

[ChristophP]

Just ran into this again. The current behavior is really bad. It basically makes using in page anchor's useless with Browser.application, because you don't want the page to reload there. It would be such an easy fix to just exclude links without an href attribute from the special treatment.

[pruchay]

for anyone here looking to get past this thing. The following delivers the desired behavior

onClickAnchor :: msg -> List (Attribute msg)
onClickAnchor msg = [ preventDefaultOn "click" <| Json.succeed (msg,True), href "#" ]

How to use it? Could you please share an example?