I've tried the following:
<a name="foo" class="foostyle ">Text in foo <a href="bar">link in foo</a>
and more text.</a>
I kinda thought that oughta work. But I found that foostyle is applied
only up to the link in foo. After that the style disappears. This
happens in both Mozilla and MSIE. Even adding contextual selectors to
the style doesn't help.
I played around with it using the Mozilla composer, and found that the
composer always repositions the </a> for the anchor to just before the
<a> for the link. To me that implies that an <A> cannot be a container
for an <A>. Is that correct? Or is there something else that I'm
overlooking?
Since I'm not likely going to change the implementation of 99% of the
browsers out there, it's more important that I figure out what to do
about this. What I'm doing is using a bit of script to switch styles
dynamically, to highlight a piece of text. The reason for doing it this
way stems from the fact that document.anchor s is supported by both
Mozilla and MSIE. I'd like the text to include links, but then the
highlight stops at the link. What I've done for now is to code it as
<a name="foo" href="bar" class="foostyle ">Text in foo with link in
foo and more text.</a>
which works, but has the unsatisfying side effect of turning the entire
section into a link, and limiting me to just one link per section.
http://www.rffutah.org/
is the page I'm talking about. The calendar on the right side is created
by the script, and when you move the mouse over the dates in September
(there are no hot dates in August), then the corresponding sections
above light up. I've removed the text underline, because an entire
section underlined looks unattractive. But if I knew of a way to get
around the "no <A> in <A>" limitation, I'd be a lot happier.
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Helge Moulding
mailto:hm****** *@excite.com Just another guy
http://hmoulding.cjb.net/ with a weird name
