"brain dead" links

    <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/">Visit W3Schools</a>

Here's a link.

I insert it into a given DIV, it's displayed perfectly as expected and where expected, however, the cursor doesn't change into a link and clicking this doesn't do anything.

I insert this into a different div, it's displayed perfectly and works perfectly.

Can anything be do开发者_StackOverflowne in CSS to prevent links from working? what could be different between those DIVs?

It's a mystery. This behavior is consistent across Chrome, FF, IE and Safari

CSS can’t disable a link. Something’s probably overlapping it. Right click and choose Inspect Element to see what it is.

There's a good chance there is a div positioned over top of it.

Add the following styles to the link to confirm:

<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/" style="display:block; z-index:1000;">Visit W3Schools</a>