Nesting A tags, valid?

[BigMoosie]

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[soccer362001]

It makes no sense at all, and a:hover works just fine in FF

[the tree]

Soccer, he was complaining about :hover not working in IE, not about FF.

Big, I see what you're getting at but I'm almost certain that it wouldn't be allowed.

[pmusu]

I think it is ok as long as:

# Tags must be properly nested
Since XHTML documents are XML applications, overlapping elements are not allowed. An element must have a closing tag before the next element's starting tag.

<b><i>This text is bold and italic</b></i> This is incorrect
<b><i>This text is bold and italic</i></b> This is correct

[Jeff Mott]

Nope, nesting A elements is not valid. Though, perhaps there is another way of accomplishing what you're trying to do.....

[NogDog]

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.2.2

[BigMoosie]

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