Re: [Lynx-dev] [Minor suggestion] Lynx should handle link elements containing any block elements

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 17 May 2007, address@hidden wrote:

> > > > > 20070515 07:06 -0400, Thomas Dickey >>>>
> > As `<a href="#"><p>Foo</p></a>` works, however, there should not be
> > any "philosophical" problem to support <div> too, in the normal mode,
>
> I agree with that (generally - I hadn't paid much attention to that
> aspect, but didn't _see_ anything in a quick reread last night of
> the HTML spec that prohibited that interpretation).
> <<<<<<<<
> But strictly speaking element "a" contains only in-line text, not block.
> Why does paragraph within anchor work?

I suppose the DTD table is inconsistent.  (It's on a later to-do list, so
I haven't really looked at it closely).

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