[whatwg] title/meta elements outside of <head>

Tue Feb 7 16:24:45 PST 2012

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Michael Day wrote:
> 
> Currently the spec seems to indicate that title and meta elements found 
> in the body will stay where they are and not be added to the head.
> 
> However, if these elements occur after the head and before the body then 
> they will be added to the head.
> 
> Is this intentional?
> 
> Sample document #1:
> 
> <html>
> <head>
> </head>
> <body>
> <title>This will stay in the body</title>
> 
> Sample document #2:
> 
> <html>
> <head>
> </head>
> <title>This will be moved to the head</title>
> 
> Sample document #3:
> 
> <html>
> <head>
> abc
> <title>Now we are in the body, where this will stay</title>
> 
> What is the reason why title/meta elements are not always moved to the 
> head, regardless of where they appear?

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 
> They didn't need to be for compatibility, so we went with less magic. 
> Also, being able to use <meta> and <link> as descendants of <body> is 
> useful for Microdata and RDFa Lite without having to mint new void 
> elements.

Henri is correct.

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