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Bug 21759 - Redundancy in "Contexts in which this element can be used" for <dialog>
Summary: Redundancy in "Contexts in which this element can be used" for <dialog>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
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Reported: 2013-04-21 03:34 UTC by Michael[tm] Smith
Modified: 2013-06-04 21:00 UTC (History)
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Description Michael[tm] Smith 2013-04-21 03:34:02 UTC 
The "Contexts in which this element can be used" section for <dialog> says:

Where flow content is expected.
As a child of a dt element.
As a child of a th element.

But dt and th both already allow flow content, so I don't understand why they are called out separately here. Also, the content-model sections for dt and th don't make any specific mention of <dialog> (I assume because they don't need any specific mention of it, since it's already part of flow content).
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-04-22 22:21:21 UTC 
Oh wow, I forgot that we allowed flow content in those. I thought we only allowed phrasing content.
Comment 2 contributor 2013-06-04 21:00:25 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7901.
Check-in comment: Remove redundant non-normative text that was just based on my forgetting what the spec said, oops
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7900&to=7901