[whatwg] <div> as a wrapper for inline content
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
Thu Jan 4 00:05:29 PST 2007
On Jan 4, 2007, at 02:58, Ian Hickson wrote:
> Yes, it is used as a way to step around strictness requirements.
> It's a bug in HTML4 that people have been abusing, as far as I can
> tell.
...
> We have to balance making life easier for early adopters with
> making life better on the long run.
OK.
> What's the use case for <div> elements containing inlines?
It seems to me that the usual use case is avoiding <p>, because the
author is too shy to claim that the particular piece of inline
content constitutes a paragraph or the author doesn't want to undo
the default style for <p>.
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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
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