- From: Robert O'Rourke <rob@sanchothefat.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:17:45 +0000
Julian Reschke wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> 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> > > Hm. > > <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-figure-element>: > > "The figure element represents some flow content, optionally with a > caption, which can be moved away from the main flow of the document > without affecting the document's meaning." > > I don't think this is usually the case for a list. > > BR, Julian > The BBC do it in articles all the time, little asides that are quoted in the story but presented in a data/extra info context to back it up. -Rob
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