A whole div or p as link - possible?

[Peter Pfannenschmid]

Hi folks,

is it possible, in a way compliant to XHTML strict, to make a whole
div or a whole paragraph a link? More general, how to make a block
element a link? I mean something like:

[...]
<a href="http://subdom.dom.de/">
<p>
Test1<br />
BlaBlaBlaBlaBlaBla<br />
Test2<br />
</p>
</a>
[...]

This code works in newest Opera, IE and Mozilla, but it's not
compliant to XHTML strict. The purpose would be that the whole
rendering area (i.e. the whole (commonly rectangular) box) of the
paragraph acts as a link, and not only the text (or other contents)
within the paragraph.

What's the easiest method to achieve this in a way compliant to XHTML
strict?

Thank you very much,

Peter

[brucie]

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it*@omeganet.de (Peter Pfannenschmid) said:

is it possible, in a way compliant to XHTML strict, to make a whole
div or a whole paragraph a link?
a{display:block;width:100%;height:100%;}
<a href="http://subdom.dom.de/">
<p>
Test1<br />
BlaBlaBlaBlaBlaBla<br />
Test2<br />
</p>
</a>
[...]

This code works in newest Opera, IE and Mozilla, but it's not
compliant to XHTML strict.

it only works by accident, its invalid
--
brucie - i usenet nude

[Andy Dingley]

On 31 Jan 2004 14:21:44 -0800, it*@omeganet.de (Peter Pfannenschmid)
wrote:

is it possible, in a way compliant to XHTML strict, to make a whole
div or a whole paragraph a link?

No good reason why you shouldn't, but the DTD forbids it.

The "XHTML way" to do this, would be to embed <span> and similar
%inline; elements, then to use CSS to style them with display:block;
as if they were a <div>