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Invalid HTML only when wrapped with a paragraph

I’m trying to make a clickable tile using an anchor tag, this code seems to work just fine:

<a href="#">
  <span>label</span>
  <address>
    address detail
  </address>
</a>

However, when I wrap this block with a paragraph, the code breaks – when I "inspect element" in Chrome (v116, latest) the address tag is moved outside of the paragraph.

I believe I should be able to place an address element (or any other block level element) inside an anchor element, but if I switch out the address element for an inline element the problem is resolved.

Is this valid HTML? Why does it work except when wrapped with a paragraph?

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    This was my mistake - I had a broken template tag at the top of my page which broke the html doctype. Somewhat interestingly, I saw no evidence of this until I encountered this issue.

    I believe the problem was that all my other code was still valid, but the broken doctype meant the page was interpreted as HTML 4 instead of 5 (block level elements inside an anchor element only became valid in html5).


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    Note that it’s invalid to wrap an <address> with a <p>. The paragraph element cannot contain block-level elements. Even if the doctype is HTML5, when a parser encounters an address element before an open paragraph is closed it will automatically close the paragraph.

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