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Firefox renders html in a wrong way some time

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junjeong
junjeong
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I have a list of items to display in a page.

The following html displays an item.

<a href="#" class="offerModule"> 

 <div class="offerDetailsWrap">
   <img src="mymb.jpg" alt="" />
   <div class="offerDetails">
     <img src="logobox.jpg" alt="" />
     <div class="offerText">
       <p>text content</p>
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>

</a>


But some time, Firefox renders this like this: (I checked this in Firebug) 


 <a href="#" class="offerModule">
 </a>
 <div class="offerDetailsWrap">
   <a href="#" class="offerModule">
     <img src="mymb.jpg" alt="" />
     <div class="offerDetails">
       <img src="logobox.jpg" alt="" />
       <div class="offerText">
         <p>text content</p>
       </div>
     </div>
   </a>
 </div>


<a><div>...</div></a> ====> <a></a><div><a>...</a></div>


So only one item out of 8 items is broken in the page. If I refresh the page when I have this problem, it displays very well.

I tested this in IE and Chrome, there's no problem in the browsers.

Thanks,

Jun

I have a list of items to display in a page. The following html displays an item. &lt;a href="#" class="offerModule"&gt; &lt;div class="offerDetailsWrap"&gt; &lt;img src="mymb.jpg" alt="" /&gt; &lt;div class="offerDetails"&gt; &lt;img src="logobox.jpg" alt="" /&gt; &lt;div class="offerText"&gt; &lt;p&gt;text content&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/a&gt; But some time, Firefox renders this like this: (I checked this in Firebug) &lt;a href="#" class="offerModule"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="offerDetailsWrap"&gt; &lt;a href="#" class="offerModule"&gt; &lt;img src="mymb.jpg" alt="" /&gt; &lt;div class="offerDetails"&gt; &lt;img src="logobox.jpg" alt="" /&gt; &lt;div class="offerText"&gt; &lt;p&gt;text content&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;a&gt;&lt;div&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ====> &lt;a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; So only one item out of 8 items is broken in the page. If I refresh the page when I have this problem, it displays very well. I tested this in IE and Chrome, there's no problem in the browsers. Thanks, Jun

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junjeong
junjeong Question owner
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I attached the screen shot.

falkon303
falkon303
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I am having the exact same problem with my soup website (http://www.oopsoup.com) on firefox 3.6. Chrome displays it fine, as does Safari, but firefox messes it up very badly.

I don't see any scripting errors on my side, and there's some times it randomly wraps elements in hyperlinks.

falkon303
falkon303
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It seems we are both styling a tags using the block attribute. This could be part of the problem/solution.

falkon303
falkon303
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I have replace my "a" element with a "div" containing a onclick="document.location.href = 'http://www.whatever.com';", and inside of the element I also have the image hyperlinked to help SEO/crawling aspects. Everything seems to be fine/not garbled so far, so you may want to try this solution yourself.

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