- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:11:17 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Diego Eis wrote: > > my name is Diego Eis. I'm from Brazil. Sorry for my bad english, ok? :D > I have a website about web standards in pt-br called Tableless.com.br. > And I have a little question. > > I have read some HTML5 articles and the specifications in WHATWG > website. I read, for example, the element 'h3' or others headers not > appear as a descendant of the 'footer' element. And I see also the > element 'nav' must not appear as a descendant of the header element. I > don't understand why. The obviously for me when I use the element > header, I say to browsers that element is a header and all elements > descendant are components of this header. I've allowed <nav> in <header> now. If you need a heading in your footer, though, just use <section>. > When I write HTML or XHTML, the strutucture look like this: > > <div id="header"> > <h1>logo</h1> > <ul menu> > <form search> > </div> > > With HTML5 header element, I can't do this. You now can. On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > > The header element is not for the page header, it is for grouping section > headings, and the tag name chosen for this element is misleading. I've renamed the old <header> to <hgroup>. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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