Unbreaking link text

[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? There's no visible difference in
any browser that I've tried.

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[Jukka K. Korpela]

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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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
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[Jim Moe]

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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[Jonathan N. Little]

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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