html5

Question

could someone tell me what is # in this ?
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>

Answer 1

# is an example of a link.

In this syntax # will not work because it is not a link of a existing website/ webpage.

In short, # is a random example of a link.

Answer 2

# is not either a dead or a random example of a link.
It's a valid value in fact.

To tell things simply, the # thing will take you to the place of the page which has the corresponding id.

For example,
if you have an element with id "about", and an a tag with href value set to "#about", it will scroll your page to the place where the about element is at that moment.

I'm not sure, but if I'm correct "#" will scroll you to the top of the page since there are no ids matching

Answer 3

OK, thank you for teaching some thing new.