[whatwg] <di>? Please?

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sun Mar 4 14:07:05 PST 2012


On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Hugh Guiney wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > There are a number of places in HTML where it would be nice to be able 
> > to group things together -- just look at how often people stick <div>s 
> > in their pages for no purpose whatsoever other than styling.
> >
> > This shouldn't be necessary. It's a limitation of CSS.
> 
> Then why is <section> in the spec?

To make it easier to move subsections around without having to change all 
the <h5>s to <h4>s and so forth.

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