@scotbaston, I think I’m following this correctly. So you have a Grid Element with its HTML tag set to be an <a>, and you’re using that as some sort of anchor for a Slider it seems? I believe that the <a> tag is only output on an Element when you fill in the href value of it as well. While you can technically have an anchor without an href attribute according to the HTML5 spec, we do not personally output it unless the href is filled in just in case a user accidentally selected it.
I use this pattern a lot for sliders I make personally (setting a Div Element to be an <a> to get the cursor). What I tend to do is if the button is a “next” button, I’ll add #next to the href value. If it’s a “previous” button, I’ll add #prev to the href value. This fills in that attribute and allows it to be swapped over to an <a>.
Hopefully that helps / addresses the situation!