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Welcome to the Mozilla wiki page on the HTML <summary> element. Please feel free to contribute new test pages or new sections. -- Tantek
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summary element test pages
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summary element demo pages
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summary element spec issues
summary naming
Issue recorded on the WHATWG wiki: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Summary
<summary>(inside<details>)- need a more specific name. summary is too generic sounding of an element name for this special usage. Similar to the problem with
<address>(special use - for contact information for the document, but used as a generic "address" for street addresses). - alternatively make a generic
<summary>element - make it an actual summary inside<article>or<body>, as well as inside<details>. Another advantage is that this is close to the semantic of the Atom "summary" element, and the hAtom microformat 'entry-summary' property.
- need a more specific name. summary is too generic sounding of an element name for this special usage. Similar to the problem with
I prefer the second solution, make the <summary> element more generic/flexible. Tantek 01:41, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
2010-08-03 posted: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-August/027559.html
see also
- HTML home page