Explaining “#”

Question

I thought when you put “#” in place of where an actual link goes, like this- <a href=“#”> that it creates a dead link and is still clickable, but doesn’t load anything.

However, in the last example I did the webpage was reactive and the tag that had <a href=“#”> had an active link. I’m confused on how that is possible if the link is considered dead.

Answer 1

Basically # is used to create internal links. By internal links, I mean to link parts of same webpage in the webpage.

Answer 2

# also called target, scrolls the page to the top.
And if you have <div id="main"> and target as <a href="#main"> scrolls the page to that main content.

To navigate to other links or pages with Dead links probably JavaScript was used to open new location.href function

Answer 3

thank you