[html5] Transparent content model

Jordan Robert Dobson Jordan.dobson at madebysquad.com
Thu Oct 15 18:40:00 PDT 2009


Can you recommend a reference where I can read up more on what a
transparent element is? I think I get it... but not 100%.

- Jordan

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Futomi Hatano wrote:
>>
>> First,
>> I think that transparent element inherits the content model of parent element.
>> Correct?
>
> Yeah, that's a good approximation of what it means. (There's some
> subtleties beyond that, e.g. <object> is part-transparent but allows
> <source> as a child before that part.)
>
>
>> Second,
>> The spec shows two DOM structures as examples.
>> The second DOM structure is correct?
>> The text node "world" is inside the em element.
>> I think that the text node "world" should be a sibling of the em element.
>
> Woah. Good catch. I wonder how I screwed that up. Thanks. Fixed.
>
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