[whatwg] <div> as a wrapper for inline content

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Kornel Lesinski wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:58:34 -0000, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> 
> > What's the use case for <div> elements containing inlines?
> 
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If that's an address:

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But yeah, I see what you're saying...

Hmm. I guess we could say it is block-or-structured-inline-but-not-both, 
like most of the other elements. That still prevents things like:

   <div>
     ...
     <p> ... </p>
   </div>

...and:

   <div>
     <h1>...</h1>
     ...
   </div>

...which are what I'm trying to avoid here.


> It can be generalized to "when <div> is used in place of elements with 
> inline content model and which are not in HTML." The simplest example 
> could be <div class="h7">.

<section><h1> handles that case.

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