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Alberto Vielledent
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Alberto Vielledent
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 1,583 Points
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Alberto Vielledent
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 1,583 Points

Using href="#" instead of index.html in the index tab?

I used the # to reference the Home link in the index.html and the About link in the about.html file. Is there anything wrong with that? In the example href="index.html" is used.

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Keith Walker
Keith Walker
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Keith Walker
Keith Walker
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Alberto, using hash marks to point to the home url wont yield the results you desire in the long run... hash marks are used as anchor tags example... site.com/#place that would take you to a specific place on a page when clicked. If you don't want to use "index.html" for a link to your home page i would suggest using the "/", this is universal and will take you back to the home page (index.html) from any page on a site.

Alberto Vielledent
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Alberto Vielledent
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Alberto Vielledent
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Alberto Vielledent
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Hi Keith thank you for your reply! I was using index.html in every other page to get back to the main page, but it seemed redundant to use index.html when you are already in the main page. (Same with using about.html on the about link to get to the about page when you are already in it.) To my understanding /# just takes you to the top of the page and that was the reason I was using it. I guess I'm failing to see or don't have enough experience to understand what issues that could cause in the long run.