Wrapping a div within an attribute

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I am wandering what the general rule of doing the above is, my editor still gives me a warning saying that the div is in an invalid location. Most questions regarding this are pushing on for 6 years old. Is it still bad to wrap a div element with an <a> attribute? for example, is the following code an acceptable thing to do now or should it be avoided?

<a href="/somelink.html">
  <div class="fancyBox">
    <p> some content </p>
  </div>
</a>

there's nothing wrong in fact it is applied in my cases – Hemant Apr 04 '17 at 16:23 — Hemant, Apr 04 '17 at 16:23

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '17 at 16:25

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Your editor is out of date.

As of HTML 5 (published as a W3C recommendation on 28 October 2014), <div> elements are allowed as child elements of <a> elements.

This wasn't the case in HTML 4.

answered Apr 04 '17 at 16:25

Quentin

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