diff --git a/_contrib/bco-htmlproof b/_contrib/bco-htmlproof
index d23c115d..8f2af944 100755
--- a/_contrib/bco-htmlproof
+++ b/_contrib/bco-htmlproof
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ HTML::Proofer.new(
         ## Links to ignore
         :href_ignore => [
           '#',        ## hrefs pointing to the current page (htmlproofer fails them)
+          /^$/,       ## anchors with no href attribute set (for clickable javascript elements)
           /^\/bin/,   ## /bin dir is not part of repository; holds Bitcoin Core binaries
           /^\/stats/  ## /stats dir is not part of repository; generated by separate stats script
         ],