RE: Headers Are Confusing in HTML5

> From: Martin Janecke [mailto:w3.org@prlbr.com]
> Sent: 30 November 2015 22:06
> Isn't it strange to have these two but no page-specific headers?

When <header> is scoped to <body> it represents the header for the document. From the HTML5.1 spec [1]:

"When the nearest ancestor sectioning content or sectioning root element is the body element, then it applies to the whole page."
 
Léonie.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/semantics.html#the-header-element

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Received on Tuesday, 1 December 2015 08:23:05 UTC