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Bug 13901 - 4.13.5 Footnotes Your recommendation for longer annotations is a bit clumsy when it comes to styling footnotes with multiple paragraphs. Would something like this be better? <section> <a id="fn1" href="#r1">[1]</a><p>This is, naturally, a lie.</p> <p>Pa
Summary: 4.13.5 Footnotes Your recommendation for longer annotations is a bit clumsy w...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: 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: 2011-08-25 14:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-17 19:21 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-08-25 14:51:47 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
4.13.5 Footnotes

Your recommendation for longer annotations is a bit clumsy when it comes to
styling footnotes with multiple paragraphs. Would something like this be
better?

<section>
 <a id="fn1" href="#r1">[1]</a><p>This is, naturally, a lie.</p>
 <p>Paradoxically if it were true he could not say so without
 contradicting the interviewer and thus making it false.</p>
</section>

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-17 19:21:37 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I don't really understand. Isn't this a straight-forward extension of what the spec suggests already?