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Bug 13628 - Aside element should accept for attribute
Summary: Aside element should accept for attribute
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: contributor
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: a11y
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Reported: 2011-08-03 19:56 UTC by Greg Lowney
Modified: 2011-08-14 09:28 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Greg Lowney 2011-08-03 19:56:45 UTC
The aside element should accept the for attribute (as does the label element) so that it can identify itself as related to something on the page (e.g. the main article) even if it is located elsewhere (e.g. in a side panel). The spec currently says that aside is always related to the content that contains the aside element, and it's not clear whether or how the author could then position it in a side panel or navigation area.

There may be other elements to which this would also apply.
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:35:38 UTC
mass-move component to LC1
Comment 2 Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis 2011-08-06 12:22:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> The aside element should accept the for attribute (as does the label element)
> so that it can identify itself as related to something on the page (e.g. the
> main article) even if it is located elsewhere (e.g. in a side panel). The spec
> currently says that aside is always related to the content that contains the
> aside element, and it's not clear whether or how the author could then position
> it in a side panel or navigation area.

CSS, perhaps using a feature such as the proposed move-to property:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-content/#moving

@for might be useful as a bridging technology, but @aria-flowto could probably do this work already:

http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/states_and_properties#aria-flowto

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Comment 3 Anne 2011-08-14 09:28:55 UTC
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: You can use CSS.