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raman@crl.dec.com

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 15:06:46 EDT
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Hi,

I have a question about what's allowed inside an anchor tag.

I thought other elements could not be nested inside an anchor, ie <a name=foo>
<h1> title </h1> </a>
to be illegal.
But the following extract from the spec confuses me.
(I hope the above is correct!)
Handling arbitrary elements inside an anchor tag is highly unpleasant.


>From the html spec for anchor tags:

A
*

	o *Required Parts*
	  <A>characters...</A>
	o *All Parts*
	  <A NAME="..." HREF="..." REL="..." REV="..." URN="..."
	  TITLE="..." METHODS="...">characters...[<H1>]
	  [<H2>] [<H3>] [<H4>] [<H5>]
	  [<H6>] [<P>] [<HR>] [<UL>]
	  [<OL>] [<DIR>] [<MENU>] [<DL>]
	  [<PRE>] [<XMP>] [<LISTING>]
	  [<BLOCKQUOTE>] [<ADDRESS>] [<FORM>]
	  [<ISINDEX>] [<IMG>] [<BR>] [<EM>]
	  [<STRONG>] [<CODE>] [<SAMP>] [<KBD>]
	  [<VAR>] [<DFN>] [<CITE>] [<STRIKE>]
	  [<TT>] [<B>] [<I>] </A>
	o *Allowed In Content Of...*
	  [<ADDRESS>] [<B>] [<BLOCKQUOTE>]
	  [<BODY>] [<CITE>] [<CODE>] [<DD>]
	  [<DFN>] [<DT>] [<EM>] [<FORM>]
	  [<H1>] [<H2>] [<H3>] [<H4>]
	  [<H5>] [<H6>] [<I>] [<KBD>]
	  [<LI>] [<P>] [<PRE>] [<SAMP>]
	  [<STRIKE>] [<STRONG>] [<TT>] [<VAR>]
	o
	o Discussion