Is a span tag with a href attribute considered valid?

Question

Here is an example:

<span href="http://www.example.com">

However. W3C Validator says:

Error: Attribute href not allowed on element span at this point.

So do you guys think it's valid? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Well, that is pretty clear…

But if you want it to behave like a link, you can wrap it in an anchor tag, such as

<a href="http://www.example.com"><span>My span is a link !</span></a>

Or the other way around.