28039 2015-02-17 12:18:02 +0000 Notes: "root element" may not be an element 2016-03-16 17:27:05 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED MOVED https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#root-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk ian mike Ms2ger philipj contributor oldest_to_newest 117984 0 contributor 2015-02-17 12:18:02 +0000 Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/infrastructure.html Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#root-element Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#root-element Referrer: Comment: "root element" may not be an element Posted from: 91.180.137.234 by ms2ger@gmail.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0 117985 1 Ms2ger 2015-02-17 12:19:00 +0000 For example, the "root element" of an orphan text node would be the text node itself. 118303 2 ian 2015-03-04 20:34:14 +0000 What is the problem here? 118310 3 Ms2ger 2015-03-04 21:22:34 +0000 The terminology is rather surprising; if you want to keep the definition, I'd like at least a note. 124828 4 philipj 2016-02-04 07:54:20 +0000 If this terminology is confusing, wouldn't the note have to be in all the places that use the "root element" concept? Adding a note after the definition itself doesn't seem worthwhile given that it's already pretty clear. 125249 5 annevk 2016-02-24 12:30:06 +0000 It seems we can replace usage of "root element" where it means self-or-root-of-self with "root" per https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-tree-root. That seems clearer than adding a note. 125250 6 annevk 2016-02-24 13:36:09 +0000 Hmm, I guess if the node is in a document "root element" still refers to the document's first element child and not document itself? I guess properly fixing this requires indeed going through all usage of the term and checking what can be used instead which may be a bit trickier. 125537 7 annevk 2016-03-16 17:27:05 +0000 https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/891