- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:37:16 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Maurice wrote: > > A few weeks ago I read something somewhere where a member of the group > suggested allowing <a> to wrap any element without caring if it was a block or > inline element. > Which would allow for things like: > > <a href="edit.php?id=41"> > <tr> > <td>Article Title</td><td>Posted: 2008-08-06</td><td>Edit</td> > </tr> > </a> > > Instead of > > <tr> > <td> > <a href="edit.php?id=41">Article Title</a> > </td> > <td> > <a href="edit.php?id=41">Posted: 2008-08-06</a> > </td> > <td> > <a href="edit.php?id=41">Edit</a> > </td> > </tr> > > > Is this actually being considered? It's actually in the spec already, except that it doesn't handle putting links around <tr>s and <li>s, because doing those is unfortunately far more complex. But you can wrap <p>s and <header>s and such like. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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