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Bug 10298 - Update the definition of BR from "a line break" to "a text-level thematic break."
Summary: Update the definition of BR from "a line break" to "a text-level thematic bre...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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: 10297 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-08-05 10:40 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:55 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-08-05 10:40:18 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-br-element

Comment:
Update the definition from "a line break" to "a text-level thematic break."

Posted from: 213.123.197.180
Comment 1 Jeremy Keith 2010-08-05 10:52:58 UTC 
Given that the HR element has been redefined in HTML5 to mean "a paragraph-level thematic break," it makes sense to also update the BR element to "a text-level thematic break."
Comment 2 Ms2ger 2010-08-06 19:31:41 UTC 
*** Bug 10297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-10 09:40:53 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It's not a thematic break, it's a line break. Consider the two main use cases, postal addresses and poems. In neither case is there a thematic break. Heck in the poem case it happens half-way through a sentence!