268838 - Hyperlink not displayed when table column tag <td> occur within anchor tag <a>.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 215340

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Manoj Kurmi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

This statement which contains table column tag <td> whithin anchor tag <a> does
not work. It does not display the link.
<a href="https://secure.icicidirect.com/trading/equity/trading.asp" ><td
align="center" class="box" bgcolor="#990000" title="trading"
style="cursor:hand"><font class="text">trading</font></td></a>
Whereas if the above statement is changed which contains anchor tag <a> whithin
table column tag <td> does work. It does display the link properly.
<td align="center" class="box" bgcolor="#990000" title="trading"
style="cursor:hand"><font class="text"><a
href="https://secure.icicidirect.com/trading/equity/trading.asp"
>trading</a></font></td>


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the http://www.icicidirect.com/

2. See the displayed page. The following texts which should be displayed as
hyperlink is simply displayed as satic test:
      home  	site map  	hasslefree investing  	login
      trading  	news  	market  	quotes & charts  	research  	mutual funds  	
personal finance  	customer service
      
3. If above link is opened in Internet Explorer then every is displayed just fine.
Actual Results:  
Output displayed didnot contain the hyperlinks

Expected Results:  
It should display the link to appropriate pages.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

You can't have a <td> within an <a>.  That's invalid HTML.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215340 ***