[whatwg] href on any element

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:33:43 +0200, Lachlan Hunt  
<lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote:
>> It's arguably a very minor improvement,
>
> The only benefit I'm aware of is the convenience it provides to authors  
> for hand coding, but that benefit is negligible when you consider the  
> abilities of many authoring tools these days.

Another thing that some author seem to want is to make an entire block a  
link, including its header and footer. Currently such things are solved  
with markup similar to:

  <a href="">
   <span class="header"></span>
   <span class="text"></span>
  </a>

...


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