10298 2010-08-05 10:40:18 +0000 Update the definition of BR from "a line break" to "a text-level thematic break." 2010-10-04 14:55:38 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-br-element P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian jeremy mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 37249 0 contributor 2010-08-05 10:40:18 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-br-element Comment: Update the definition from "a line break" to "a text-level thematic break." Posted from: 213.123.197.180 37250 1 jeremy 2010-08-05 10:52:58 +0000 Given that the HR element has been redefined in HTML5 to mean "a paragraph-level thematic break," it makes sense to also update the BR element to "a text-level thematic break." 37272 2 Ms2ger 2010-08-06 19:31:41 +0000 *** Bug 10297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 38811 3 ian 2010-09-10 09:40:53 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: It's not a thematic break, it's a line break. Consider the two main use cases, postal addresses and poems. In neither case is there a thematic break. Heck in the poem case it happens half-way through a sentence!