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Links Are Links

MUST

MUST: Links are links—use `<a>/<Link>` for navigation (support Cmd/Ctrl/middle-click)

Use <a> or <Link> for navigation so browser behaviors work

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Why it matters

Links should use anchor tags so users can right-click to copy the URL, cmd-click to open in a new tab, etc. Using buttons or divs for navigation breaks these standard browser features and hurts accessibility.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.