Alternative to nested anchor tags

I'm trying to build a table where each cell's content is wrapped with an A tag set to full height and width, so that the entire cell is开发者_Python百科 clickable.

But some of the cells need to have additional links in their content.

The solution that immediately jumps out is to nest the A tags, like so:

<td>
   <a href="#" class="cell" >
      Officers include:
      President, Vice president, Secretary, Treasurer,
      <a href="#">7 others</a>
   </a>
</td>

But nested A tags are illegal. Is there any workaround that would allow me to achieve the desired effect?

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You could use CSS or JavaScript. I would recommend just using CSS.

CSS

This works in my Firefox using CSS only. Basically I just made all child links (except the big one) have position: relative and set their z-index to higher than the large background link.

HTML

<div>
    Hello, <a href="http://example.com/hello" class="normal">Bob</a>
    <a href="http://example.com" class="big"></a>
</div>

CSS

div {
    position: relative;
}

.big {
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;   
  z-index: 0;
}

.normal {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 1;  
}

JavaScript

Attach a click event to the cell, and an event to all child links. Make sure child links events do not bubble up (stopPropagation()).

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You probably want something like...

<td>
   <a href="#" class="cell" >
      Officers include:
      President, Vice president, Secretary, Treasurer,
   </a>
   <a href="#">7 others</a>
</td>

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Why not just define it like so:

<td>
    <a href="#" class="cell" >
       Officers include:
       President, Vice president, Secretary, Treasurer,
    </a>
    <a href="#">7 others</a>
</td>

Surely if the entire cell is clickable that will negate any of the cell's contained links?