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Bug 20793 - Is 'aside' related to the nearest ancestor sectioning content?
Summary: Is 'aside' related to the nearest ancestor sectioning content?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 editorial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: steve faulkner
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2013-01-28 11:30 UTC by Stefan Götz
Modified: 2016-04-21 22:21 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Götz 2013-01-28 11:30:10 UTC 
For the 'aside' element the spec says [1]:

  The aside element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the aside element, and which could be considered separate from that content.

Does "around" refer to content of the parenting sectioning element/root, to content of the parenting element (no matter which) or to any content (whole document)? Maybe it could be stated more clearly?

Further it says:

  The element can be used […] for other content that is considered separate from the main content of the page.

Shouldn't it say something like "separate from the main content of the nearest ancestor sectioning content"?



[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/sections.html#the-aside-element
Comment 1 Travis Leithead [MSFT] 2016-04-21 22:21:33 UTC 
HTML5.1 Bugzilla Bug Triage: Fixed in https://github.com/travisleithead/html/commit/b55587163363da0822e6a76e4b9cf1c8f80b3d8d

(In PR; yet to be merged)

If this resolution is not satisfactory, please copy the relevant bug details/proposal into a new issue at the W3C HTML5 Issue tracker: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/new where it will be re-triaged. Thanks!