RE: Behavior of nested Links, pseudos and style

In
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_hypert
extmodule

<a>'s content is listed as (PCDATA | Inline - a)*

So this is not allowed:
<a href="outer_link">
  outer link, 
  <a href="inner_link">
    inner link
  </a>
</a>

So a browser's interpretation of nested links should be that it is
invalid xhtml.  But current browsers do a best intention interpretation
of their own.

Benjamin D. Gray
WIND Web Developer
http://wind.uwyo.edu/


-----Original Message-----
From: Manos Batsis [mailto:m.batsis@bsnet.gr] 
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:04 am
To: www-style@w3.org
Subject: Behavior of nested Links, pseudos and style

Consider the following fragments of an xhtml document:

<style type="text/css">
a:link{text-decoration:none;}
a:hover{color:red;text-decoration:underline;}   
</style>

And

<a href="outer_link">
  outer link, 
  <a href="inner_link">
    inner link
  </a>
</a>

In both Mozilla5 (Gecko/20011120) and IE6, during mouseover events on
the outer link, only the non inner link changes style.

Is this according to spec?

Test page attached (linkTest.htm, 499Bytes).

Kindest regards,

Manos