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Bug 13377 - Please allow us to use <caption> tag for other uses other than <table>. I can think of many other uses for this tag to allow for more readable and descriptive html.
Summary: Please allow us to use <caption> tag for other uses other than <table>. I can...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (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/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-07-26 23:36 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:13 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-07-26 23:36:45 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Please allow us to use <caption> tag for other uses other than <table>. I can
think of many other uses for this tag to allow for more readable and
descriptive html.

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Comment 1 Henri Sivonen 2011-07-27 12:12:49 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: <caption> has abnormal legacy parsing behavior when it occurs in a table cell that's too risky to change. Since it's assumed that you can use just about anything you can use as a child of <body> as a child of <td>, it doesn't make sense to expand the applicability of <caption> from its current purpose.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:13:29 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1