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**vapanchamukhi** · 10-06-2008, 03:02 AM

i have written a program as below

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>
hello everybody
</title>
</head>
<body>

<a href "http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.html"> <h1 align = "center">test </h1></a>
</body>
</html>

test.html is as below

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>
hi hello
</title>
</head>
<body>
hi how are you
</body>
</html>

the main html program is not making a link to the file which is given as the href...
so please tell me where i have done mistake... how can i solve it?

**chrishirst** · 10-06-2008, 03:10 AM

a hn tag should NEVER go inside an <a> element

and it's href="address"

**arbet** · 10-06-2008, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

a hn tag should NEVER go inside an <a> element

Place the <a> tag instead inside the <h1> tag

**Decaf** · 10-06-2008, 09:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arbet

Place the <a> tag instead inside the <h1> tag

or

Code:

<a href="http://google.com" style="font-size:x-large;color:#000000;">Google</a>

This is more complaint and you can change the "x-large" to "large" or "xx-large".

**arbet** · 10-07-2008, 01:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Decaf

or

Code:

<a href="http://google.com" style="font-size:x-large;color:#000000;">Google</a>

This is more complaint and you can change the "x-large" to "large" or "xx-large".

Why it is more compliant? Both are valid XHTML.

**chrishirst** · 10-07-2008, 03:22 AM

A heading element inside a anchor element is NOT valid (X)HTML

inline elements must NOT enclose block elements

**hirewriters** · 10-07-2008, 06:49 AM

I agree H1 is a block level element and a (anchor) is an inline element so you need to open the h1 tag first and then place anchor tag inside it.
In your code (the first post) you have missed "=" after "a href"

**sweetkendi** · 08:35 AM

try this code:

Code:

<h1 align="center"><a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.html">Test</a></h1>

I hope this will help you..

**LadynRed** · 10-07-2008, 09:14 AM

If we're talking XHTML here - align="center" is not valid either - that kind of presentational markup belongs in a CSS file, and that alignment method is DEPRECATED.

Using font sizes like large, x-large, etc. is just asking for trouble. Font sizing should be done in percentages or em's.

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