[whatwg] List Headers

• From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
• Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:45:28 +0000 (UTC)
• Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0902041044150.952@hixie.dreamhostps.com>

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Robert O'Rourke wrote:
> 
> Are there any plans to bring list headers from HTML3 into HTML5? They'd 
> make a lot of markup patterns simpler and be very very useful when it 
> comes to styling.

You can do this in HTML5, using <figure> and <legend>:

   <figure>
    <legend>A header for the list</legend>
    <ul>
     <li>List item</li>
     <li>List item</li>
     <li>List item</li>
    </ul>
   </figure>

HTH,
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