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| Summary: | [validator] Incorrect warning when wrapping block level element with anchor tag in HTML5 | ||
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| Product: | web | Reporter: | zoszsoz |
| Component: | HTML Editor | Assignee: | Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 7.4 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 7 | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
Supporting thread: http://davidwalsh.name/html5-elements-links Regex Rule Category: Elements structure. Reproducible Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201311260002) |
In HTML5 it is now completely valid syntax to wrap a block level element such as a "div" or "li" in an "a" (anchor) tag. For example if I do this to make the whole "li" line clickable: <ul> <a "home.html"> <li>Home</li> </a> </ul> In Netbeans it throws an error saying: Element "a" not allowed as a child element of "ul" in this context. This error is valid for HTML4 and XHTML doctypes, not HTML5 doctype. It is useful to make a whole element clickable without resorting to "cursor: pointer" and a JavaScript click event to accomplish the same thing. Please remove this error if the HTML is in HTML5 doctype. Thank you.