- From: Ian Yang <ian@invigoreight.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:02:45 +0800
- To: whatwg@whatwg.org
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Ian Yang wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ian Yang wrote: > > > > > > > > That's a good idea. We really need an element to wrap all the <p>s, > > > > <ul>s, <ol>s, <figure>s, <table>s ... etc of a blog post. > > > > > > That's called <article>. > > > > Thanks Hickson. Actually I had turned down my own opinion ( > > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Nov/0182.html > > ). > > > > And isn't <article> used to wrap an entire blog post? Like this: > > > > <article> > > <header /> > > <div /> > > <footer /> > > </article> > > Right. It wraps all the elements of a blog post. All the <p>s, <ul>s, > <ol>s, <figure>s, <table>s, <h1>s, <footer>s, etc. > > If you just want to wrap a subpart of that for rendering purposes, <div> > is the element you want. Basically <div> is always the answer if the > question is "how do I provide myself a hook for CSS styling". "A hook for CSS styling" is just a side benefit. That's not the primary thing I want. Personally I care about the meaningfulness and the semantic aspect of HTML. Therefore what I want is a meaningful element which is designed to wrap the content of a blog post. Regards, Ian Yang
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