Fw: [Bug 19277] Relationship and precedence of hidden="" and display:none should be clarified/defined

So, it is an authoring error as well as a WCAG2 violation under robust.

Rich


Rich Schwerdtfeger
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From: bugzilla@jessica.w3.org
To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
Date: 12/09/2013 06:05 PM
Subject: [Bug 19277] Relationship and precedence of hidden="" and
            display:none should be clarified/defined



https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19277


--- Comment #25 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
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(In reply to James Craig from comment #23)
> I was thinking both 1 and 2 should apply, but could live with your edit.
> Others in PF felt more strongly that there should be a warning or error
when
> authors overrode the 'hidden' semantic.
>
> Can you clarify your objection to making it an author error/warning to
> diplay content marked as [hidden]?

Per HTML5 it is already an authoring error to make an element with the
@hidden
attribute visible. Citing the NOTE i HTML51:

“Authors therefore have to take care when writing their style sheets to
make
sure that the attribute is still styled as expected.”

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/single-page.html#the-hidden-attribute



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