Is there a way to get a <button> element to link to a location without wrapping it in an <a

Question

Just wondering if there is a way to get a HTML element to link to a location without wrapping it in an tag?

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Answer 1

You can make it a non-submitting button () and hook something like window.location = 'http://where.you.want/to/go' into its onclick handler. This does not work without javascript enabled though.

Or you can make it a submit button, and do a redirect on the server, although this obviously requires some kind of server-side logic, but the upside is that is doesn't require javascript.

(actually, forget the second solution - if you can't use a form, the submit button is out)