Breaking Markup

[Mathias Aeschlimann]

I have a markup structure set up like this:

 <a href="">
      <div>
        <h2>
        Header</h2>
          <img alt=""
          src="" />
      </div>
    </a>

CKEditor breaks this valid markup and outputs:

      <div>
       <a href="">
        <h2>
        Header</h2></a>
         <a href="">
          <img alt=""
          src="" />
        </a>
      </div>

[Mathias Aeschlimann]

I guess the intend here was to produce valid html 4 mark-up. If so, it should at least check the doctype.

Update: I was told at ​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ckeditor-for-wordpress-how-to-stop-ckeditor-from-breaking-my-markup?replies=3#post-2717286 that this behavior is by design. This is very unfortunate, as there is nothing wrong with my mark-up within the doctype I use, so I'd still consider it a bug.

[Jakub Ś]

Yes this is valid code for HTML5. It is not yet implemented in v3 of the editor (it should be in v4 by default).

Anyway it has already been reported here #7961

Closing this one as duplicate.