275506 - Link nested inside other link doesn't work (Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox 1.0)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kjell Rilbe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

With nesting like this
<a><div>Outerlink<a><div>Innerlink</div></a></div></a>
the inner link doesn't work. Clicking the inner link will activate the outer
link. This works in IE 6 (but it has other problems with it...).

Not sure what the standards say about this. Is it supposed to work?

Note: I tested it with the XHTML transitional DTD.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load demo page.
2. Click inner link (www.sourceforge.net).
3. You will get the outer link (www.mozilla.org).

Actual Results:  
The wrong page showed up - the one that the outer link refers to - www.mozilla.org.

Expected Results:  
The inner link's page should show up - www.sourceforge.net.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

It's right in the spec that nesting links is illegal.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.2.2

Comment 2

[Kjell Rilbe]

(In reply to comment #1)
> It's right in the spec that nesting links is illegal.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.2.2

Wow, that was fast! :-) Thanks for pointing me to the standard.