[whatwg] Transparent Content

Yuvalik Webdesign postmaster at yuvalik.org
Wed Oct 14 08:15:33 PDT 2009


> From: Tab Atkins Jr.
> >
> > Perhaps you could leave the existing sentence, but add:
> >
> > "In short; a transparent element must have the same content model as
> its parent."
> >
> > Or something to that effect?
> 
> That's still not accurate, though.  ^_^  I mean, it's *correct*, but
> it's not a summarization of the existing sentence (which is implied by
> "in short").  Ian pointed out how a transparent element can have
> children that would match the content model of the parent, but that
> wouldn't be correct if simply inserted into the parent (the example
> with <unique>).
> 

Hmm, yes.  Oh well. I give up. It's not that important anyway. And with the added example I am sure it will be ok.

Evert




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