10547 2010-09-04 04:17:37 +0000 The rendering requirements for legend in fieldset need to change if the legend is floated or positioned 2010-10-04 13:58:14 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-fieldset-element-0 P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian bzbarsky ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-webapps public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 38468 0 contributor 2010-09-04 04:17:37 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#the-fieldset-element-0 Comment: The rendering requirements for legend in fieldset need to change if the legend is floated or positioned Posted from: 173.48.34.3 38469 1 bzbarsky 2010-09-04 04:19:18 +0000 Gecko, Webkit, Presto, all allow positioning and floating legends, and just treat them as normal block children of the fieldset when that happens (Gecko in that situation will also allow styling them as display:table for now, but we may change that to match the others, who only allow "block"). I believe Trident may too, but haven't tested this. This was a commonly reported bug against Gecko when it forced the legend-like display even when positioning or floating. 39424 2 ian 2010-09-26 00:50:55 +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: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 39425 3 contributor 2010-09-26 00:52:17 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r5504. Check-in comment: make the legend rendering requirements only apply when they make sense http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5503&to=5504 39589 4 bzbarsky 2010-09-27 17:24:55 +0000 I opened bug 10771 on the fact that the new text doesn't actually match implementations very well.