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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 PointsInvalid HTML markup
Here's a little HTML markup snippet for you.
<ul class="class-name">
<a href=""><li class="class-name">Study Hall</li></a>
</ul>
I copied this from a codepen from another question because it piqued my interest on something.
If I want to do mobile navigation and make a background colour in CSS that is completely clickable I do might do something like the above so the clickable area completely covers the background area i.e. the content area.
Only, as I suspected, it's not valid code. But is this okay? Does it affect anything negatively such as SEO, Search ranking? Or just someone who doesn't happen to like what they see when they look at your source code :)
2 Answers
Jacob Herper
94,150 PointsYou should put the link tag <a> inside the list element <li>:
<li class="class-name"><a href="">Study Hall</a></li>
Unsubscribed User
4,479 PointsSorry, I meant to say, my question was about applying inline-block styling to the a link AFTER it is inside the li element.
Unsubscribed User
4,479 PointsUnsubscribed User
4,479 PointsI think I've run into this before. I think I did this on a site a while ago and had it return as invalid code. I don't think it was a problem although it wasn't being developed for mobile at the time.
I asked a question here on the forum that was related to this - I asked why styling for a link was applied to the parent li tag.
Could a work around be to apply inline-block styling to the a link? Which would allow specifying width and height dimensions to a background that is clickable?