title: Is it valid HTML to have an anchor tag without href and without name?
body: <p>Is it valid HTML to have an anchor tag without href and without name? In our app we have some delete links which are disabled (hence no <code>href</code> attribute), but still shown to the user.</p>
  
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  <p><sub>I am posting this question on behalf of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1439143/joshua-muheim">Joshua Muheim</a> which was asked in the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/10510353/497418">comments of a related question</a>. It is very similar to the original question, but different enough that I felt it was worthwhile to open it as a separate question.</sub></p>