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Bug 9829 - <button> should be scoping for the purpose of implicitly closing <p>
Summary: <button> should be scoping for the purpose of implicitly closing <p>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P1 critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubu...
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Reported: 2010-06-02 08:34 UTC by Henri Sivonen
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:59 UTC (History)
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Description Henri Sivonen 2010-06-02 08:34:13 UTC 
It turns out that bug 9496 didn't capture all important aspects of <button>'s scopingness. While it makes sense to make button non-scoping for the purpose of mismatched end tag tokens coming from the tokenizer, <button> should be scoping for the purpose of implicitly closing <p>.

That is, <p> should not get closed implicitly in this case:
<p><button><h5>Foo</h5></button></p>

Gecko bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569528
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-07-14 18:13:42 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2010-07-14 18:14:15 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5158.
Check-in comment: Make the implied </p> magic not cross <button> boundaries since doing that breaks a(n invalid) Ubuntu download page. Rename the 'phrasing' category to 'ordinary' since I keep forgetting that 'phrasing' is not an explicit list but is in fact an open-ended list. Merged the 'special' and 'scoping' categories since nothing distinguished them.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5157&to=5158