- From: Mat Carey <mat@matcarey.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:04:09 +0000
- To: rescator@emsai.net
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Unfortunately that's not in-keeping with the backwards compatible nature of HTML5, if we were to specify that as the parsing approach from now on it would cause a major inconvenience to anyone actually trying to use that feature when some browsers have picked it up and others haven't. > The only issue is the css styling of <body> as <body> is treated as the parent of <header> and <footer>. This is by design. A body element will wrap the body in the DOM even if there's no body tag in the markup, AFAIK this is partially to document the existing behaviour of not-so-modern browsers (which, of course, we have no influence over); just have a look at how the DOM is structured in the modern browser of your choice - in my case Chrome: <html><head> <title>header and footer outside body</title> <style> body {border:1em solid #7f2424;} header {border:1em solid #247f24;} footer {border:1em solid #24247f;} </style> </head> <!-- I wish the <head></head> tags was called <meta></meta> instead. --> <body><header> This is the header of the document! </header> This is the main content of the document! <footer> This is the footer of the document! </footer> </body></html> This feature would be a U-Turn in HTML5 and I can't see any browser vendors going for implementing it at risk of 'breaking the web' … and I agree that there is a major risk of that. Mat Carey -- Web Developer & Consultant mat@matcarey.co.uk www.matcarey.co.uk On 9 Nov 2012, at 20:04, Roger Hågensen <rescator@emsai.net> wrote: > Starting a new subject on this to keep the email threads more clear: > > Suggestion is that the following should be possible, > this would allow <body> to act as if it was a <main>. > > <!doctype html> > <html> > <head> > <title>header and footer outside body</title> > <style> > body {border:1em solid #7f2424;} > header {border:1em solid #247f24;} > footer {border:1em solid #24247f;} > </style> > </head> <!-- I wish the <head></head> tags was called <meta></meta> instead. --> > <header> > This is the header of the document! > </header> > <body> > This is the main content of the document! > </body> > <footer> > This is the footer of the document! > </footer> > </html> > > > As can be seen in most modern browsers. Semantically the content appear correctly. > The only issue is the css styling of <body> as <body> is treated as the parent of <header> and <footer>. > I'm not sure how much work or not it would be to allow 1 <header></header> and 1 <footer></footer> outside <body> and let those have <html> as their parent instead, > but if it's not too much work then this could "fix" the lack of a <main>, and it would avoid the need of using a extra <div> or similar inside <body> just for styling. > > Any other pros (or cons)? > > > -- > Roger "Rescator" Hågensen. > Freelancer - http://www.EmSai.net/ >
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