28077 2015-02-22 21:15:20 +0000 many sites, including the w3 validator, state that the hgroup element is obsolete. there is no mention of such thing here in the documentation so it is not clear whether it can be used or not. 2015-08-31 16:57:40 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-hgroup-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk faulkner.steve ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 118081 0 contributor 2015-02-22 21:15:20 +0000 Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-hgroup-element Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-hgroup-element Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ Comment: many sites, including the w3 validator, state that the hgroup element is obsolete. there is no mention of such thing here in the documentation so it is not clear whether it can be used or not. Posted from: 179.57.205.113 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 118306 1 ian 2015-03-04 20:36:35 +0000 I guess we should add a note saying to ignore the W3C... 122867 2 annevk 2015-08-28 16:28:00 +0000 Per advice from Mike Smith marking this WONTFIX. If this keeps coming up we'll add a clarifying note. 122921 3 faulkner.steve 2015-08-31 16:57:40 +0000 (In reply to Anne from comment #2) > Per advice from Mike Smith marking this WONTFIX. If this keeps coming up > we'll add a clarifying note. What are the reasons for keeping <hgroup>? It was included in the spec to serve a purpose in support of a feature that has never been implemented. Its major effect at this point appears to be as a cause of confusion for authors/developers, as when it comes to conformance checking, for better or worse, the W3C HTML conformance checker is the one that people use and it reports hgroup as an error.