[whatwg] List Headers

Robert O'Rourke rob at sanchothefat.com
Wed Feb 4 02:58:30 PST 2009


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>
>
> HTH,
>   

Thanks Ian, and thanks to Lachlan and Christian for discussing it and 
helping to clear some things up for me.

It's going to take me a while to get used to the more creative uses of 
the new HTML5 elements!

Thanks again.
-Rob




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