I was working on some examples for the use of <del> and <ins>. http://www.thomthom.net/blog/2008/03/document-history-viewer-making-use-of-del-and-ins/
As I was working on this I wanted to mark up a list where items had been added and removed. That's when I realised that you can't wrap up <li> <dt> or <dd> in <del> or <ins> elements because <ul>, <ol> and <dl> only allows list items as their direct child. The <del> and <ins> then have to be wrapped inside the list item. <ul> <li>Item 1</li> <li><del>Item 2</del></li> <li>Item 3</li> </ul> When I hid the <del> using display: hidden; the list would render something like this: * Item 1 * * Item 3 Because I could wrap up the entire list item, the bullet point would still remain. To me it appears illogical to not wrap the <del> or <ins> around the list items when you add and remove items to the list. I'm guessing it's a case where every scenario wasn't accounted for when the specifications was written. (Yes, I know that I could add an extra class to the list item that I wanted to hide, but it's not the point. It shouldn't be necessary.) However, when this scenario presents itself I see it as fine to break the specification and mark it up like this: <ul> <li>Item 1</li> <del><li>Item 2</li></del> <li>Item 3</li> </ul> This seem to render exactly as I expect it to do in every browser I've tested. * Item 1 * Item 3 I posted a comment about it in the W3C public HTML discussion group, hoping it'd be picked up and amend HTML5's specification to allow this. However, there's yet been any response. Is there any other place I could air this issue in hope of it getting heards by the authors of the next HTML specs? ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
