HTML table cells & font colors

[Diane Madrigal]

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Thomas Dowling wrote:

>     <a href="wherever"><font color="white">A Link</font></a>  
> 
> ..validates against HTML 3.2.  

I thought that other HTML tags were not supposed to be used w/in an anchor
tag. Is this wrong? Or is it just another case of Netscape and MSIE
accommodating (or encouraging) sloppy coding?

Diane Madrigal
New York State Library
State Education Department