Sara Soueidan • 9/7/2018

Nested Links Without Nesting Links

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This article addresses a front-end web development challenge: making an entire article preview clickable while preserving individual links within it (like author names). It explains the HTML specification's prohibition against nesting <a> tags and details a creative workaround using the <object> element with an invalid type to trick the browser into rendering the nested link structure correctly.

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