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		alextp on Nov 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do we have an IMG element? But it makes it harder to have an image link to something else

rbanffy on Nov 3, 2009 [–]

You could always put a <a href...></a> pair around the image, just like we do with <img ...> tags.

alextp on Nov 4, 2009 | [–]

Not really, you can't nest <a> tags in html (you can in SVG, though)

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