In defense of javascript: void (0);

The other day I decided to watch the news via Google . I right-click on the “other news” link and in the context menu there is no button open in a new window. I decided to look at the source code and see javascript: void (0);
For me, this was news, because everything that I had read before was definitely against such a decision.


I mean the situation when the link runs some js code and is not used for its intended purpose, which markup is better to use?
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Void is better than href = "#" because the behavior of href = "#" when opening in a new window for users is unexpected: the user clicks on 15 links with the right mouse button and opens each one in a new tab. As a result, he has 16 tabs with the same document.

So if suddenly the standard “javascript:” cancels there were no collisions, use onclick = “return false;” with it. Pegged by Google News:
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