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Re: [Lynx-dev] [Minor suggestion] Lynx should handle link elements conta
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] [Minor suggestion] Lynx should handle link elements containing any block elements |
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Mon, 14 May 2007 20:42:04 -0400 |
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On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:35:51PM +0200, Mathieu Bonnet wrote:
> Using lynx-2.8.6_rel-4 (on Gentoo Linux), Lynx does not handle links
> containing some block elements (`<a href="#"><div>Foo</div></a>` does
> not work -"Foo" is on a new line, as normal text, that is, it is not
> styled, and cannot get the focus-, while `<a href="#"><p>Foo</p></a>`
> does work).
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> While putting block elements, in inline elements, surely is incorrect,
> in W3C HTML, it should be supported, for compatibility with broken
> websites (I encountered one, today -and surely told the owner to use
> <span>, if it was really needed, but it's probably not the only website
> doing this).
It seems to work if you turn on tagsoup mode, e.g., control/V
(for the rest, I'll have to see if it's a bug-fix or a workaround ;-)
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