Mark the anchor tag as having no title

Well, I'm not sure if this is a _bug_, actually, but that's a good point. Hm.

What if I returned some sort of 'title_status' field... or entered_title... thoughts?

You know, I think I might try returning an "original_title" and "original_url" fields, so themers can get at the original values if they __really__ want to... But willing to entertain feedback.

I'm thinking of combining this with #1475790: Link should not modify $item['url'] on node_view() (causes data loss when combined with Workbench Moderation), so that would mean actually going to creating new url/title/attribute fields for the themes to hook off of, and leaving the original url/title as is.

However, that's a bit of whiplash for existing theme functions. I'm thinking if I'm doing something this radical to how the field is themed, it should be part of moving to 7.x-2.0 version.

I'm going to call this a bug, since there is a common use-case where you wrap a link around a div that has an image, to provide a 'button' or what-have-you.

In that case, you'd want to leave the URL in place of the title for accessibility reasons, but be able to style the title text to hide it.

If someone wanted to do this, they'd alter theme_link_formatter_link_default() so that if there was no title field value, the link options attributes would contain a class called something like 'link-without-title'.

Then they'd write a test which adds a link with no title, and checks that it has the class added by l().

Adding Novice tag.

Just a heads-up: You can find the original title in the helpful original_title field.