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How to code anchor tags as block element to contain other block elements

Tags:

html

css

firefox

I am experiencing the same problem described in this thread. I'm wondering if there are other ways to achieve the same result and avoid this issue.

Apparently Firefox has issues with anchor tags containing block elements even when the display CSS property of the anchor tag is set to "block". The effect that I am trying to achieve is to have a the complete block click-able instead of the the text in the block. It also allows to apply the hover state to the whole block instead of the link part.

Can anyone suggest a technique

EDIT:

This is what I intend to show:

<div class="entry ">
    <a class="link" href="/topics/34/steroids">
        <h2>Some Text</h2>
        <div class="info">
             <div class="tag-visualization">
                  <div style="width: 67%;" class="guage"></div>
             </div>
             <ul class="stats">
                  <li>
                       <strong>0</strong><br>FOLLOWERS
                  </li>
                  <li>
                       <strong>2</strong><br>ANSWERS
                  </li>
                  <li>
                       <strong>2</strong><br>QUESTIONS
                  </li>
             </ul>
         </div>
     </a>
</div>

This is what firefox renders:

<div class="entry ">
     <a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">
     </a><h2><a _moz-rs-heading="" class="link" href="/topi/45/diet">sometext</a></h2>
     <a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                        </a><div class="info">
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                
                            </a><div class="tag-visualization">
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                                </a><div style="width: 67%;" class="guage"></div>
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                            </a></div>
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                            </a><ul class="stats">
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                                </a><li>
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                                    <strong>0</strong><br>FOLLOWERS
                                </a></li>
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                                </a><li>
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                                    <strong>2</strong><br>ANSWERS
                                </a></li>
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                                </a><li>
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                                    <strong>2</strong><br>QUESTIONS
                                </a></li>
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                            </a></ul>
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                        </a></div>
<a class="link" href="/topics/45/diet">                    </a>
                </div>
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Roman Avatar asked Oct 08 '10 15:10

Roman


1 Answers

When I would normally need a <div> inside an <a>, I use a <span> instead with display:block;. Doesn't break the layout in Firefox with the aforementioned bug and behaves exactly as a <div> does.

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Core Xii Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 16:09

Core Xii