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Bug 20670 - An ul is commonly used by authors for things like galleries, product-listings and even form-elements. Should the spec not include a note stating if those usages are allowed or not?
Summary: An ul is commonly used by authors for things like galleries, product-listings...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-01-15 10:05 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-03-09 01:23 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-01-15 10:05:33 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-ul-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-ul-element

Comment:
An ul is commonly used by authors for things like galleries, product-listings
and even form-elements. Should the spec not include a note stating if those
usages are allowed or not?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-03-09 01:23:58 UTC 
If they're lists, they're allowed. If they're not, they're not. Is the spec not clear about this already? I don't really understand this request.