Does Google pick up anchor text that is in nested elements?

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Published on 2014-03-14T09:17:02Z Indexed on 2014/06/12 21:41 UTC
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When Google looks at anchor text on a website, will it pickup the text if it is inside nested elements?

So for example:

<a href="http://www.google.com/">Visit Google</a>

To:

<a href="http://www.google.com/">
    <div class="circle">
        <span>Visit Google</span>
    </div>
</a>

The reason I ask is because I want to use css3 elements for certain links on my website, to style them as circles. But the anchor text needs to be picked up for these links, so I want to know wether or not the above is bad practice in this case.

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