- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:27:05 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, divya manian wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > In what sense is it listed under phrasing content? > > The content model for the legend is stated as phrasing content in the > spec [1] Oh it can contain phrasing content, yes. I thought you meant it was phrasing content itself. Sorry. > > It's just supposed to be a child of <fieldset>, so it doesn't have any > > category at all. > > Thanks, the general rule [2] that is given in the spec seems to include > almost every known HTML4 element as flow content, but then, legend > somehow is not a flow content (even though it fulfills the General > Rule). > > [2] "should have either at least one descendant text node that is not > inter-element whitespace, or at least one descendant element node that > is embedded content" I think you are misreading this. It's not saying that anything that contains text is a flow content element, it's saying that anything that is a flow content element is supposed to contain text. > I am trying to figure out if there is an easy way to know which elements > are flow or not other than referring to the spec for each element before > using. You can refer to the index: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-index.html#element-content-categories It lists all the elements in each category. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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