Pol Briand wrote:
Semantically, paragraphs (P elements) may contain one or several LIST
(UL or OL elements).
That's more about syntax than about semantics, and whether a paragraph may
contain lists is debatable, at a general level of discussion as opposite to
HTML specifically. In HTML, it has always been a rule that a <p> eleement
may contain "text-level" or "inline" or "phrasing" content only - no <ul> or
<ol> elements for example.
If you are suggesting that HTML should be modified to allow lists inside
<p>, then I'm afraid the suggestion has no hope of being accepted. The main
reason is that such a change would break existing pages.
In HTML as currently defined, if you have, say,
<p>foobar<ul>
then a browser is required to infer a missing </p> before the <ul> tag, i.e.
an <ul> element implicitly closes an open <p> element. This is because <ul>
is not allowed inside <p> and the <p> element is defined as having an
optional closing. If <ul> were allowed inside <p>, then where would the <p>
element end?
It would be a different thing to prose a "superparagraph" element that may
contain lists and perhaps other block contents as well, such as a
blockquote, a pre element, or a table. I don't think it would be very
realistic either (there's hardly any practical necessity for such an
element, and practical benefits are more or less debatable), but it would
have better chances than an essential change to an existing element.
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