[thelist] anchor tag not allowed within span

iris laren4 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 26 04:21:33 CDT 2001


--- James Aylard <jaylard at encompass.net> wrote:
> aardvark,
> 
> > i do believe the W3C validator will fail a
> floating <a> if it's not in a
> > block-level element...

i usually got it within a paragraph tag, blockquote,
or similar...

> 	In my experience, the Homesite 4.x validator is
> often wrong (it doesn't
> seem to contain complete logic for HTML 4.x), and I
> recommend against
> relying on it. As you know, probably the most
> reliable validator is from the
> W3C itself. [2]

i'm glad to hear that homesite isn't correct in this
case, i did find that a bit strange.  i usually find
the homesite syntax checker useful for finding rogue
characters like quotation marks and such.  i don't
really rely on it as a validator.  i did want to make
sure though.

thanks
iris

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