[whatwg] [wf2] Omission of legend

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Aug 15 01:27:27 PDT 2006


On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 
> Since the omission of <legend> does not cause any horrible effects, I 
> suggest making <legend> optional and reaffirming that if it appears, it 
> can appear only once per <fieldset> and only as the first child 
> (ignoring whitespace).

I agree, and I will do this as part of HTML5, where I am defining content 
models. If you don't object, I'll leave this change out of WF2 for now. 
(If you do object, then let me know, and I'll shoehorn it in somehow.)

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