Anchors are eaten by function checkEmpty

[guest]

The following line in function checkEmpty(el) eats anchors on a page during a cleanup operation:

    if ( /^(a|span|b|strong|i|em|font)$/i.test(el.tagName) && !el.firstChild)
    {
      HTMLArea.removeFromParent(el);
      ++stats.empty_tags;
    }

The problem is the a in the list of tags to remove. Anchors are by definition empty tags, but they shouldn't be removed from a page during cleanup because this will break links. Removing the a in the above list solves the problem. While we're here, why not add empty div, span and p tags to this list?

[guest]

Oh yes, span is already included in the list. But div and p would be good.

[gogo]

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