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Bug 18073 - I get validation errors when using a header element inside a footer. Has this changed in the current spec, but not been updated in the validators?
Summary: I get validation errors when using a header element inside a footer. Has this...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
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 16:31 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-28 20:48 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 16:31:26 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 16168 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-02-29 20:48:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-02-29 20:48:27 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-footer-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-footer-element

Comment:
I get validation errors when using a header element inside a footer. Has this
changed in the current spec, but not been updated in the validators?

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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2012-09-05 21:11:27 UTC 
The spec says the content model for footer is "Flow content, but with no header or footer element descendants." So the validator conforms to the spec by emitting an error message if you put a header inside a footer.
Comment 2 Erika Doyle Navara 2012-09-28 20:48:26 UTC 
Resolving as WORKSFORME, please see Comment #1