For my website i'll need to use `` instead of `` because i'm using mostly ajax and thus instead of links i have onclick ajax events as attributes in my spans. As a result, i've had to manually style the spans to look like links. I've used hover and visited pseudo classes to change background and text colour, but to change the mouse default to a pointer finger on hover, will i need to use javascript? Or can i do that using css? Also, i've just realized...couldnt i just use the `` tag anyways instead of ``, but just instead of an href, i would include an onclick? It should work just the same, no?
If you leave out all anchors and use span instead you are penalizing yourself on search engines since spiders don't know what to crawl anymore without href.