[html5] Element for advisory, warning, or contingency note

[Gordon Baker]

I'll go ahead and answer my own concern about <small> being phrasing content. I looked at the spec in regards to paragraphs, and a <small> element between paragraphs would be treated as an implicit paragraph. So no concern there, it seems.
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 07:55:12 -0500
Subject: Re: [html5] Element for advisory, warning, or contingency note
From: yrocsand at gmail.com
To: ian at hixie.ch
CC: gbakerled at outlook.com; help at lists.whatwg.org

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:



> In the spec, such notes are marked up as <p class="note"> or <div

> class="note">. Is this considered the correct way, or is there a more

> specific element that could be used.



I've been planning on moving these (and examples) to <aside>, though that

requires also changing to using a different heading structure (since

<aside> is a sectioning element and thus resets the outline algorithm to

the top-level heading, if I recall correcty).

Yes, that was one of my concerns. Another subscriber (responding privately) suggested <small>, which I also though could be a good fit semantically, and it avoids the "sectioning issue." On the other hand, small is classified a phrasing content, so it would have to be nested in a <p> if I understand correctly. Or can it be used in the flow with other <p>'s (assuming its display is changed to block), i.e., 

<p></p><p></p><small></small><p></p>...
<small> is also styled as smaller font in by browsers' default style sheets so that's something that most (?) would want to override.





> Some candidates I thought might be possible are <strong>, <em>, <i>,

> <b>, and <aside>:

>

> <aside> I find it hard to say if advisory notes are tangentially related

> to surrounding content -- I would tend to think not. Also, <aside> is a

> sectioning element, and I don't think an advisory note is a different

> section.



If it's really just an inline paragraph that you happen to want to have

special styling for, as opposed to a side note, then a class is probably

the right way to go. (One way to look at it is: if you dropped the classes

and CSS, would the document still make sense? Or does it only make sense

if it is properly offset in some stylistic way?)

"happen to want to have special styling for." But surely there'd always be some *reason* for the special styling? If it's "utilitarian" then <b> is appropriate according to the spec, no? Or can you provide a specific example of what you mean here? Perhaps referring to the spec, could you identify a note that you would mark up as an aside vs. a note that you would mark up with .note?

Thanks,Gordon



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