Using block spans inside A tags

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Does anyone know of any good reason not to do the following:

<a href=""><span style="display:block">xyz</span></a>

You can't use a div inside an a tag while keeping XHTML1.1 strict compatible, but the above code validates OK.

What I want to know are the pros and cons (if any) of doing this. Does anyone know of any cross-browser issues, display issues, etc with doing this?

Incidentally, i'm doing it so that I can set a width and height for the inner span, rather than doing this for the a tag itself.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Vragabond]

I know it works in IE6, IE5.5, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera and Safari. I endorse it, since I used it in my pages. Same as you, I was avoiding validation problems by using divs. I haven't found a problem so far.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Yup - I was getting display problems, but found those were caused by something else...

The block spans work great for me now, too.

Thanks,
Dan