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Bug 10547 - The rendering requirements for legend in fieldset need to change if the legend is floated or positioned
Summary: The rendering requirements for legend in fieldset need to change if the legen...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-09-04 04:17 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:58 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-09-04 04:17:37 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#the-fieldset-element-0

Comment:
The rendering requirements for legend in fieldset need to change if the legend
is floated or positioned

Posted from: 173.48.34.3
Comment 1 Boris Zbarsky 2010-09-04 04:19:18 UTC 
Gecko, Webkit, Presto, all allow positioning and floating legends, and just treat them as normal block children of the fieldset when that happens (Gecko in that situation will also allow styling them as display:table for now, but we may change that to match the others, who only allow "block").  I believe Trident may too, but haven't tested this.  This was a commonly reported bug against Gecko when it forced the legend-like display even when positioning or floating.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-26 00:50:55 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 3 contributor 2010-09-26 00:52:17 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5504.
Check-in comment: make the legend rendering requirements only apply when they make sense
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5503&to=5504
Comment 4 Boris Zbarsky 2010-09-27 17:24:55 UTC 
I opened bug 10771 on the fact that the new text doesn't actually match implementations very well.