[pmwiki-users] Marking up the markup

[DaveG]

I have another piece of code that I'm making use of which works based on 
classes, picking up objects from the DOM based on class.

I'd have thought that adding a class to an anchor is not something out 
of the usual.

  ~ ~ Dave

Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:22:09PM -0400, DaveG wrote:
>> Anyone help? I need to get a class tag inside an anchor link:
>>       <a href="xyz" class="my_class">text</a>
> 
> Why?  What is the problem with having a class tag in a span around an
> anchor link?
> 
>        <span class="my_class"><a href="xyz">text</a></span>
> 
> If you need to style the anchor with CSS, then the only difference is
> that you would do something like this:
> 
> span.my_class a { ... }
> 
> rather than
> 
> a.my_class { ... }
> 
> It should still work perfectly well.
> 
> Kathryn Andersen