[whatwg] <h1> to <h6> in <body>

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Apr 1 01:57:03 PST 2005


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, dolphinling wrote:
> 
> |    <ol>
> |     <li><h3>F</h3></li>     2.2.   F
> |     <li><h3>G</h3></li>     2.3.   G
> |     <li><h3>H</h3></li>     2.4.   H
> |    </ol>                    (part of section started by H)
> |    <p>...</p>               (part of section started by H)
> 
> If one were to explicitly include section tags around H here, where 
> would they go? It can't start before the <ol>, because then it would 
> include F and G, but it can't start inside the <ol> because then it 
> would break nesting.

Oh, sure. You can't (always) use section elements to indicate the 
sectioning of legacy headers.

Is it a requirement that you should be able to? What's the use case?


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