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Bug 14691 - <a> should be allowed as a child of <dl> Current browsers allow this already. A semantic use case is file downlads <dl><a href="filename1.pdf"><dt>Filename</dt><dd>description of file</dd><dd>filetype</dd></a>etc...</dl>.
Summary: <a> should be allowed as a child of <dl> Current browsers allow this already....
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 14690
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-11-03 21:28 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-11-03 21:28:34 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-dl-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-dl-element

Comment:
<a> should be allowed as a child of <dl> Current browsers allow this already.
A semantic use case is file downlads <dl><a
href="filename1.pdf"><dt>Filename</dt><dd>description of
file</dd><dd>filetype</dd></a>etc...</dl>. 

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Comment 1 Jonathan Worent 2011-11-03 22:12:03 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14690 ***