Hello,
I just encountered a strange thing when switching the doctype
on and off in the following html testpage (with IE 6.0):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>
Testpage
</title>
<style type="text/css">
p {
width: 50%;
background-color: #dddddd
}
a {
height: 200px;
width: 500px;
background-color: #cccccc
}
a:hover {
background-color: #cccc00
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
Testpage
</h1>
<p>
<a href="#">Testlink</a>
</p>
</body>
</html>
With doctype xhtml-strict turned on, the height / width on the <a> tag is
ignored.
My question is: Is this the desired behaviour? Does xhtml-strict not allow
reformatting of the <a> tags with regard to width / height?
My problem is, that I would rather like to switch background color in a
larger
area than only behind the text when hovering over the link. I could easily
embed the <a> tag in a paragraph <p> of appropriate size, but then color
switching while hovering is only performed on the small <a> tag.
Any help is appreciated.
TIA
Bye
Clemens Quoß
