Is putting a div inside an anchor ever correct?

Question

I\'ve heard that putting a block element inside a inline element is a HTML sin:

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Answer 1

If you change it to a block-style element, then no, it's no longer 'wrong', but it probably won't validate. But it doesn't make much sense to do what you're doing. You should either just keep the anchor tag as a block level element with no inner div, or put the div on the outside.