7483 2009-09-03 07:20:42 +0000 The footer element desperately needs to be able to contain sectioning content descendents, most importantly "nav". Under the current specification, I will just end up using div class="footer" so my footers can contain sectioning content. 2010-10-04 13:58:15 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All CLOSED FIXED http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-footer-element NE P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian cgriego clagnut eric me mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 26805 0 contributor 2009-09-03 07:20:42 +0000 Section: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-footer-element Comment: The footer element desperately needs to be able to contain sectioning content descendents, most importantly "nav". Under the current specification, I will just end up using div class="footer" so my footers can contain sectioning content. Posted from: 203.36.167.2 26814 1 me 2009-09-03 14:50:08 +0000 Completely agree with this. Many current sites will employ a large footer section at the bottom of the page containing basic site information, lists of related pages, recent updates and popular articles. Without the ability to include sectioning elements within the footer element, this is not possible in HTML5 without resorting to using divs, thus negating the purpose, and indeed usefulness of the footer element. 26816 2 eric 2009-09-03 15:06:50 +0000 Proposed fix: change the content model to state: "Flow content, but with no header or footer element descendants." 26818 3 clagnut 2009-09-03 15:07:58 +0000 I concur. Take for example the orange/brown area at the bottom of http://clagnut.com/. It's repeated throughout the site and is contained within a div of id "footer". It is a footer by almost anyone's definition. And it contains headings, paragraphs and lists, of which only paragraphs are currently allowed in the HTML 5 footer element. My suggestion would be to allow footer to contain the same elements that are allowed in header. 26850 4 eric 2009-09-04 19:57:44 +0000 Does http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3750&to=3751 mean the change is being undertaken? (I'm 99% sure it does, but I'd like confirmation so I can fill in that last 1%.) 33382 5 mjs 2010-03-14 14:50:33 +0000 This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy. If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, 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 This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.