[whatwg] List Headers

[Lachlan Hunt]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Robert O'Rourke wrote:
>> Are there any plans to bring list headers from HTML3 into HTML5? They'd 
>> make a lot of markup patterns simpler and be very very useful when it 
>> comes to styling.
> 
> You can do this in HTML5, using <figure> and <legend>:
> 
>    <figure>
>     <legend>A header for the list</legend>
>     <ul>
>      <li>List item</li>
>      <li>List item</li>
>      <li>List item</li>
>     </ul>
>    </figure>

Since figure is a sectioning root, a heading element could also be used 
here and it wouldn't affect the outline.  Please add an example of this 
use case to the spec.

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