Div tags in links

[pavlick]

Please, help me to figure out: is it OK to put DIV tag into link like this:

<a href="http://some_url" title="test">
<div class="homepage_block_title homepage_block2_title">
<h1>Click here</h1>
</div>
</a>

Will it influence the search spider? will the link be indexed?

Thanks.

[poksa]

hmmm.... I've never try that one..

[redeemer_spawn]

Based form my readings putting DIV tags will brings your code closer to Web standards compliance.,all while making your website more appealing to search engine spiders.,

[corlock]

This does not affect the spiders actually and I don't think that with just that kind of link will be indexed because sites are being indexed. maybe you are referring that bots might still read it, right? there's no problem with it, don't worry, it will still be crawled. after all, div is also like css, actually its a css but only inline...

[Steven_D]

<div class="homepage_block_title homepage_block2_title">
<a href="http://some_url" title="test">
</a>
</div>

The H1 tags shouldn't be inside a link, and the div should be on the outside of the link. as above.

and, if you are using the div just for formatting purposes, you can actually assign class information to the H1 tag in the style sheet as below

h1 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; TEXT-DECORATION: none; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify
}

There is a really sweet FF plugin that will check the code on pages you are visiting. It is a little anal, it says that on this page there are 37 warnings and I only have it on HTML check no the SGML parser.

just install it then browse over your site, you will see what conforms to w3 standards.

The link for the FF plugin is on Bogeys blog http://wedevoy.blogspot.com/ and it is definitely worth the install. One of the best FF plugins if you are doing development work.

[redeemer_spawn]

Same here in formatting purposes for Div I've done the same thing and sometimes I group them also to have similar display in just calling one function.,