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This was was cloned from bug 15670 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-01-22 17:19:00 +0000 ================================================================================ #0 contributor@whatwg.org 2012-01-22 17:19:03 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html#the-nav-element Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#outline Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#outline Comment: Specify the behavior when a dangling <section> is encountered. Posted from: 114.43.116.53 by kennyluck@csail.mit.edu User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/534.51.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.1 Safari/534.51.22 ================================================================================ #1 Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu 2012-01-22 17:30:39 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Consider <section> <!-- first --> <section></section> <!-- second --> <h1></h1> </section> , at the time when the algorithm walk in <h1>, the current section is the first <section> but now it gets an implied heading because of the second <second>, prose like # Otherwise, if the element being entered has a rank equal to or greater # than the heading of the last section of the outline of the current outlinee is no longer well defined. Also, the second section never gets an implied heading. If you intend to leave this behavior undefined at the moment, I think you should just say so. ================================================================================
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