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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Add Image Gallery Content

Jacob Lee
Jacob Lee
1,499 Points
Posted by Jacob Lee
Jacob Lee
1,499 Points

Anchor tags wrapping elements

Is it semantically correct to wrap HTML elements such as divs and h tags with anchor tags as per the example?

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

can you give us an example? if it is some thing you saw in this video, I'm sure it is semantically correct.

3 Answers

Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hey Jacob and welcome to Treehouse.

Yes it is. Whatever tag you wrap in an anchor tag will become part of the clickable area for the link. For example, if you are building a portfolio page, and you want the image and the description to be included in what can be clicked to go to the link, you would need to wrap the <img> and the <p> tags within the anchor tags.

Hope that answers your question. Keep Coding! :)

Jacob Lee
Jacob Lee
1,499 Points
Jacob Lee
Jacob Lee
1,499 Points

Great thanks for clarifying. Is that new to HTML5 as I'm sure is wasn't allowed in XHTML?

Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

I'm really not that familiar with XHTML, so I can't answer that question, but it is perfectly okay in HTML5. :)

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
8,841 Points

Hi,

Per my understanding, if you have any button inside a division tag, then it wont work. To understand better, you can try out examples and check how it works.

The following discussion has information to your question.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1827965/is-putting-a-div-inside-an-anchor-ever-correct

Thanks, Aishu

Jacob Lee
Jacob Lee
1,499 Points
Jacob Lee
Jacob Lee
1,499 Points

Jacob Mishkin The example wrapped two <h> tags with a single <a> tag

<a href="index.html">
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
</a>
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

I moved your comment to an answer so I could comment directly to your example, and yes Jason is right. if you click on either the h1 or h2 tags they both will have the same like which is index.html, and it is semantically correct. Jason said it best, and yeah this is okay to do.