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Bug 12656 - If a dt and dd are wrapped in a div, are they excluded from being a group in that dl? This statement is not clear with regards to this: "If a dl element contains non-whitespace text nodes, or elements other than dt and dd, then those elements or text node
Summary: If a dt and dd are wrapped in a div, are they excluded from being a group in ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-05-14 06:35 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-13 05:38 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-05-14 06:35:13 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-dl-element

Comment:
If a dt and dd are wrapped in a div, are they excluded from being a group in
that dl? This statement is not clear with regards to this: "If a dl element
contains non-whitespace text nodes, or elements other than dt and dd, then
those elements or text nodes do not form part of any groups in that dl."

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Comment 1 Ms2ger 2011-05-14 18:47:37 UTC 
Should probably make it clear that "contains" here only includes children, not descendants.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:13:31 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-13 05:37:34 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with comment 1. The answer to the original comment is yes, they are not part of a group; such a document would be non-conforming anyway. The spec seems pretty clear about this.
Comment 4 contributor 2011-08-13 05:38:41 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6444.
Check-in comment: wording tweaks to avoid 'contains' which can be interpreted as referencing descendents rather than children
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6443&to=6444