[Bug 13128] Allow wrapping list items in DIV elements

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13128

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #13 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-08-17 04:09:37 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: 

This isn't really supported by browsers currently. For example, IIRC legacy IE
will ignore </li> so the <div> in the example in comment 8 will end up inside
the <li> even if you include the end tags.

There is no reason fixing this in CSS should take any longer than fixing it in
HTML.

There are several reasons that this is non-conforming in HTML, the main one
being it is massively error-prone.

I disagree with the premise that omitting end tags is bad form. We certainly
should not be ignoring issues relating to omittable end tags on the basis that
authors who fall prey to such problems deserve it for not being proper authors.


(In reply to comment #10)
> 
> It's not purely a styling issue, it's a logical issue.  There's no way to
> indicate that several consecutive li's are logically related, for style or
> script or any other purpose.

What's the use case here? I don't completely follow. Why doesn't the class=""
attribute handle this adequately?

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Received on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 04:09:39 UTC