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Bug 9513 - It's not clear what takes precendece on a conflit: For spliting our web site structure into sections, should we use a section (without header on some cases) our should we use DIV (knowing that div brings no semantic relevance at all). The *should* on the
Summary: It's not clear what takes precendece on a conflit: For spliting our web site ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
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: 2010-04-14 10:13 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:56 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-04-14 10:13:29 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-section-element

Comment:
It's not clear what takes precendece on a conflit: For spliting our web site
structure into sections, should we use a section (without header on some
cases) our should we use DIV (knowing that div brings no semantic relevance at
all). The *should* on the section header element and the section as a page
structure possibility leeds to confusion. 

Posted from: 89.180.62.131
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-15 01:12:02 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The answer to your question is in the question: "For spliting our web site structure into sections, should we use a <section> our should we use <div>" — it seems clear that <section> is the right answer. However, I don't understand what you mean by the rest of your question. Could you elaborate on what you mean by "the *should* on the section header element and the section as a page structure possibility"?