[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#847967: Bug#847967: lynx: Fix links containing divs

Mon Dec 12 17:15:39 UTC 2016

Control: forwarded -1 https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2016-05/msg00006.html
Control: tag -1 + confirmed

Hi Samuel,

thanks for the bug report. This seems to be a known issue upstream...

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> More and more websites use nice-looking links thanks to css, using code
> like this:
> 
> <html>
> <a href="http://www.debian.org/"><div class="foo">Debian</div></a>
> </html>

It seems as if that was invalid HTML for a long time and is valid
under HTML5 or so.

> In lynx 2.8.9dev11, the Debian word does not appear as a link at
> all, actually the link is not reachable at all! This is really
> not usable at all, see for instance http://rue89bordeaux.com/ or
> https://2017.rmll.info/ which do not contain any link...

Both URLs do contain some links for me. Anyways, there seem to be less
links than expected. But at least pressing Ctrl-V as suggested on
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2016-05/msg00006.html
seems to unhide the remaining ones.

		Regards, Axel
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