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Re: Allowed children in a dl element

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Oct 24, 2018 5:51AM

This is a bug in the attest rule, needs to be updated to reflect HTML
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SteveF
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 12:43, Brian Lovely via WebAIM-Forum <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> >
> > The w3 HTML5 spec seems to allow a div to be the immediate child of a dl,
> > then a dd or dt to be a child of that div.
>
>
> "Either:Zero or more groups each consisting of one or more dt
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#elementdef-dt> elements
> followed by one or more dd
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#elementdef-dd>elements,
> optionally intermixed with script-supporting elements
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#script-supporting-elements-2>.
> Or: One or more div
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#elementdef-div>
> elements,
> optionally intermixed with script-supporting elements."
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-dl-element
>
> However, Deque's Attest Chrome browser extension calls out an error: "<dl>
> elements must only directly contain properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups,
> <script> or <template> elements"
>
> These seem to contradict one another. Can anyone shed some light on this?
>
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> *Brian Lovely*
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