Several html elements inside an anchor tag, with CI's anchor funtion

[eluser]teampoop[/eluser]
You can also use functions that output text inside the second argument, which will output the same text as Bart mentioned..

Code:

&lt;?php echo anchor('news/article', img('picture.jpg').'<span>some text</span>') ?&gt;

On a side note, the third parameter on the anchor function is an array that would only change the attributes of the <a> tag. Not affect the innerHTML.

again, I could be wrong.