[whatwg] Question about header and footer
Bruce Lawson
brucel at opera.com
Tue Jan 12 01:40:25 PST 2010
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:19:04 -0000, Lachlan Hunt
<lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote:
> Bruce Lawson wrote:
>> Is it permissible for one element to have more than one child headers,
>> or
>> more than one child footers?
>
> Yes.
>
>> And, if is permissible, should it be?
>
> Unless we have a very good reason, I don't think we should start placing
> arbitrary restrictions on how elements can be used. In fact, there's a
> very good reason to allow footers to be used more than once per section,
> as illustrated by the first footer element example in the spec. I don't
> believe it's a problem for multiple headers either as the sectioning
> algorithm will create implied sections from the headings anyway.
Makes sense. Thanks Lachy.
b
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