As of HTML 5, <a> may contain not only (valid) inline elements, but also block elements, etc. W3: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element:concept-element-content-model
Don’t go to w3schools. Check the w3c documentation for pre and code instead. PRE: The PRE element tells visual user agents that the enclosed text is “preformatted”. When handling preformatted text, visual user agents: May leave white space intact. May render text with a fixed-pitch font. May disable automatic word wrap. Must not disable bidirectional … Read more
There are cases where explicit tags help, but sometimes it’s needless pedantry. Note that the HTML spec clearly specifies when it’s valid to omit tags, so it’s not always an error. For example you never need </body></html>. Nobody ever remembers to put <tbody> explicitly (to the point that XHTML made exceptions for it). You don’t … Read more
HTML5 has several goals which differentiate it from HTML4. Consistency in Handling Malformed Documents The primary one is consistent, defined error handling. As you know, HTML purposely supports ‘tag soup’, or the ability to write malformed code and have it corrected into a valid document. The problem is that the rules for doing this aren’t … Read more