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Bug 23119 - In the "have an element in a specific scope" algorithm, "the target node" is not defined
Summary: In the "have an element in a specific scope" algorithm, "the target node" is ...
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: 2013-08-31 17:25 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-09-12 21:27 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-08-31 17:25:50 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/parsing.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-stack-of-open-elements
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-stack-of-open-elements
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tree-construction.html

Comment:
In the "have an element in a specific scope" algorithm, "the target node" is
not defined

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-08-31 21:43:35 UTC 
Fixed in a batch of fixes recently.
Comment 2 Ms2ger 2013-09-01 08:50:31 UTC 
I'm afraid not.
Comment 3 Ms2ger 2013-09-03 18:41:25 UTC 
Discussion about what exactly is unclear starting at http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20130903#l-447
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-09-04 19:09:56 UTC 
I made a few more changes based on that discussion, but I really don't understand the remaining confusion.
Comment 5 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-09-12 21:27:43 UTC 
Please reopen if you can explain why this is confusing.