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Bug 18004 - Specify the behavior when a dangling <section> is encountered.
Summary: Specify the behavior when a dangling <section> is encountered.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Erika Doyle Navara
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 08:00 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-14 05:11 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 08:00:00 UTC
This was was cloned from bug 15670 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-01-22 17:19:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-01-22 17:19:03 +0000 
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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
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 #1   Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu                             2012-01-22 17:30:39 +0000 
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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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Comment 1 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-09-14 05:11:54 UTC
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   Status: Accepted
   Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/2d4096f960a3a0de3562c9c93746336cafcef159
   Rationale: accepted WHATWG fix