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Bug 9371 - I misinterpreted "represents a paragraph-level thematic break" to mean "should occur between paragraphs". Might be nice to add "can be used anywhere the p element is used", or to mention "for rendering or analysis purposes" or "most flow elements are para
Summary: I misinterpreted "represents a paragraph-level thematic break" to mean "shoul...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
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: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-03-31 01:14 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:30 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-03-31 01:14:29 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-hr-element

Comment:
I misinterpreted "represents a paragraph-level thematic break" to mean "should
occur between paragraphs". Might be nice to add "can be used anywhere the p
element is used", or to mention "for rendering or analysis purposes" or "most
flow elements are paragraphs" in 3.2.5.3

Posted from: 221.191.254.72 by w3.org@boblet.net
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-12 07:20:44 UTC 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: I couldn't work out how to change the text, so instead I just added an example that shows <hr> used next to <ol> and <dl> and shows it not used between <section>s.
Comment 3 contributor 2010-04-12 07:27:21 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4995.
Check-in comment: Add a quite contrived example for <hr>.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4994&to=4995
Comment 4 Oli Studholme 2010-04-12 08:39:00 UTC 
That would have been enough for me to realise. Closing