Web link in html duplicating itself? - html

Question

Newb at html and web... anything beyond usage. I'm not even sure this is the correct forum for this question.
I placed a link in the html for a container (image and text) that I had inserted into the footer of our page.
I inserted the code for the link to surround the image and text sections of that part of the container.
<div class="blah blah"
<a href="etc.etc">
<img
Continue on until after the last line of text
</a>
</div>
It was nice, clean, and the link encompassed the image and both lines of text.
I check an hour later, and every line of text and the image now have the link info repeated individually, and strangely duplicated between the lines of text for no apparent reason.
Running the site with odoo, based on bootstrap if I remember correctly.
Why is it duplicating the link information repeatedly?
It works fine, it's just ugly when going in to edit the code, and I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong to cause it to happen.
Edit:
here is the current code, after apparent self duplication:
<div class="col-md-4 text-center">
<a href="http://edited/" target="_blank" title="edited
http://edited/">
<img class="fa-suitcase img-rounded" src="/website/image/ir.attachment/1143_1cc91ea/datas" style=""/>
</a>
<h3 class="mt8 mb0">
<a href="http://edited/" target="_blank" title="edited
http://edited/">
<span style="color:#FFFFFF;">edited</span>
</a>
</h3>
<div class="text-muted">
<a href="http://edited/" target="_blank" title="edited
http://edited/">
<span style="color:#D3D3D3;">edited</span>
</a>
</div>
</div>
When it was originally entered, it was this:
<a href="http://edited/" target="_blank" title="edited
http://edited/">
<div class="col-md-4 text-center">
<img class="fa-suitcase img-rounded" src="/website/image/ir.attachment/1143_1cc91ea/datas" style=""/>
<h3 class="mt8 mb0">
<span style="color:#FFFFFF;">edited</span>
</h3>
<div class="text-muted">
<span style="color:#D3D3D3;">edited</span>
</div>
</div>
</a>