Is it possible to place a link inside <input> field?

Question

Is it possible to place links on Login and on Register here?

<input type="text" class="formcontrol" value="Please Login or Register to view your tracking link.">

Answer 1

The <input> element may not have a close tag

Tag omission in text/html:
    No end tag.

which means it may not contain HTML.

On top of that, it is Interactive Content, which means that it is not allowed to contain <a> elements (or any other Interactive Content). <textarea> is interactive content as well, so the following will not work either:

<textarea>Please <a...>Login</a> or <a...>Register</a> to view your tracking link.</textarea>

If you want to use a placeholder for the field that includes links, you'll need to style an element to look like an <input> element:

input,
.input {
  border: 1px solid #888;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  display: block;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  font-size: 14px;
  line-height: 20px;
  margin: 10px 0;
  padding: 2px 5px;
  vertical-align: baseline;
  width: 300px;
}

<input type="text" value="Looks like an input"/>
<div class="input">Looks like an input, <a href="#">but isn't</a></div>

Answer 2

according to w3c, the end tag is forbidden on an input tag this means that you cannot place any element inside of an input tag

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html