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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0
/ Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> was heard to say:
| At 6:35 AM -0500 11/16/01, Norman Walsh wrote:
|
| >But <A> links are *always* inline. This doesn't provide any practical
| >experience with making <P> elements or <DIV> elements or <BODY>
| >elements the starting point of links.
|
| No, they're not, which is precisely my point. <A> links can and do
| surround block level elements, and browsers have no trouble dealing
| with this. It may not be legal according to the HTML DTD, but
| practically it does work and it is used. I doubt even one HTML author
| in ten knows that A elements aren't allowed around block level
| elements.
Can you point me to any pages that actually use this, uh, "feature"?
Be seeing you,
norm
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Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | they were not here, / And hold
| their manhoods cheap whiles any
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