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

I think that most of the time when people ask this question, they have build a site with only divs, and now one of the div needs to be a link.

I seen someone use a transparent empty image, PNG, inside an anchor tag just to make a link inside a div, and the image was the same size as the div.

Pretty sad actually...but it works...