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Welcome to the Mozilla wiki page on the HTML5 <summary> element. Please feel free to contribute new test pages or new sections. -- Tantek

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<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.

I prefer the second solution, make the <summary> element more generic/flexible. Tantek 01:41, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

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 == summary element spec issues ==
 === summary naming ===
+Issue noted on the WHATWG wiki: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Summary
 * <code>&lt;summary&gt;</code> (inside <code>&lt;details&gt;</code>)
 ** need a more specific name. summary is too generic sounding of an element name for this special usage.  Similar to the problem with <code>&lt;address&gt;</code> (special use - for contact information for the document, but used as a generic "address" for street addresses).