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Bug 28077 - many sites, including the w3 validator, state that the hgroup element is obsolete. there is no mention of such thing here in the documentation so it is not clear whether it can be used or not.
Summary: many sites, including the w3 validator, state that the hgroup element is obso...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
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: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-hgr...
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Reported: 2015-02-22 21:15 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2015-08-31 16:57 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2015-02-22 21:15:20 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-hgroup-element
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-hgroup-element
Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/

Comment:
many sites, including the w3 validator, state that the hgroup element is
obsolete. there is no mention of such thing here in the documentation so it is
not clear whether it can be used or not.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2015-03-04 20:36:35 UTC 
I guess we should add a note saying to ignore the W3C...
Comment 2 Anne 2015-08-28 16:28:00 UTC 
Per advice from Mike Smith marking this WONTFIX. If this keeps coming up we'll add a clarifying note.
Comment 3 steve faulkner 2015-08-31 16:57:40 UTC 
(In reply to Anne from comment #2)
> Per advice from Mike Smith marking this WONTFIX. If this keeps coming up
> we'll add a clarifying note.


What are the reasons for keeping <hgroup>? It was included in the spec to serve a purpose in support of a feature that has never been implemented. Its major effect at this point appears to be as a cause of confusion for authors/developers, as when it comes to conformance checking, for better or worse, the W3C HTML conformance checker is the one that people use and it reports hgroup as an error.