The short version (with a lot of formatting)

It’s not just about price. The right car should fit your actual routine.

Here’s a deliberately awkward phrase: pre-owned inventory can be just as compelling as new inventory.

Another awkward one: foobarbaz should become foobarbaz, with no inserted spaces.

The link starts mid-sentence and contains a bold idea,
an italic aside, a nested span,
and even an MSRP abbreviation before normal text resumes.

Keep legitimate links such as Google,
a Google query containing the target as a parameter,
and the target path with a query string.

A similar address without the trailing slash should stay,
as should one with a fragment,
one with a doubled slash, and
an absolute URL to a different site.

Small data attributes are not links; and
this valid anchor has a misleading data-href.

Side-by-side comparison

A normal paragraph can end with a risky link right here.

Images, captions & accessibility

Source credits: external example; edits by the editorial team.

Buying guide: intentionally overformatted

3. Set your budget. Consult payment tools and an old payment note.
4. Decide between new and used inventory.
   • Check warranty options.
   • Compare annual mileage (including travel) with your usage.
   • Look at filtered sedans without breaking the & entity.
5. Inspect the vehicle in person — never skip this — and take notes.
6. Bring questions to your appointment; this fragment URL must remain linked.
7. Revisit a deep child page with encoded params.

• First line has a linked phrase followed by ordinary text.
• ALL of this item begins as a link but the list item itself must remain.
• Third line is a near miss.
• A fourth line with a title attribute containing encoded quotation marks.
• Empty anchor test: prepost should become prepost.
• Whitespace-only anchor test: A B should keep the spaces and tab, not drop them.

Questions, quotations, and notes

“The goal isn’t a perfect spec sheet. It’s a vehicle that feels right after six months.”

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Literal example text (not a live anchor): <a href="/obvious-404/">example</a>.

Sample documentation:
This is a real anchor within code/pre, and should stay.
<a href="/obvious-404/">Escaped syntax should not be touched.</a>
Note: /obvious-404/ is just a path when written as text.

Deliberate text-flow traps

Start: ENDBEGIN should become
Start: ENDBEGIN, without an inserted space before BEGIN.

Strong starts before the link and emphasis lives inside it and ends outside.

The attribute contains /obvious-404/ but it’s just text.
This is a legitimate link despite decoy attributes.

Do not confuse the title attribute with a URL to remove.

Very close lookalikes: old suffix, extra prefix, extra digit, different case.

One more anchor with
a forced line break and more text followed immediately by punctuation!

Another test ends with a linked comma, then keeps flowing.

One starts with the anchor(parenthetical text)and has no surrounding spaces.

Retain an already-valid fragment link, an email link, and a maps link.

Link-heavy navigation row

There is also an icon-only link: preserve the SVG when the anchor disappears.