[whatwg] content models clarity

Geoffrey Sneddon foolistbar at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 6 12:50:59 PST 2009


On 6 Mar 2009, at 11:53, Rikkert Koppes wrote:

> The content models [1] section is pretty clear, however, whenever  
> one wants to know which elements fall into a specific content model,  
> one has to look at the "categories" definition of each element.
>
> A (possibly non normative) overview would be helpful. I understand  
> it is repeating information, hence possibly leading to conflicts  
> when not paying attention while editing, but I think it would  
> clarify a lot. Consider a similar overview to the one found in [2]  
> listing the applicable attributes to various input types.
>
> [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dom.html#content-models
> [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#the-input-element

It is intended that such a thing be part of the as-of-yet unwritten  
index.


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