Re: [css-d] Question regarding the use of section
Am 18.04.2013 16:39 schrieb Nancy Johnson: When I first went live with a website a few months ago, the following code validated and now it doesn't. Why? section role=main Strange enough: the specs at WHATWG allow main as a value of @role in the section element: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html#wai-aria http://developers.whatwg.org/content-models.html#wai-aria Role must be either alert, alertdialog, application, contentinfo, dialog, document, log, main, marquee, region, search, or status __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Question regarding the use of section
I would change it to: section id=mainYou are using correct doctype right? !DOCTYPE html Hope this helps. When I first went live with a website a few months ago, the following code validated and now it doesn't. Why? section role=main __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Question regarding the use of section
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:12 PM, John D xfs...@hotmail.com wrote: I would change it to: section id=mainYou are using correct doctype right? !DOCTYPE html Hope this helps. When I first went live with a website a few months ago, the following code validated and now it doesn't. Why? section role=main I admit to still being confused by the proper use of section and article. I was waiting for the dust to settle on them (which it probably has by now) and in the meantime, I use: div class=main role=main/div 2¢ -- Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Question regarding the use of section
Nancy Johnson wrote: When I first went live with a website a few months ago, the following code validated and now it doesn't. Why? section role=main Thank you, Nancy Johnson Validation takes place in a context; with no knowledge of the context in which you used this construct a few months ago, and the context in which you are using it today, it is impossible to answer your question. But you should be aware that if you are using the experimental HTML 5 validator, there is no guarantee that anything that it regards as valid today will still be valid tomorrow (and vice versa), as unlike the stable HTML 4.01 validator there is as yet no W3C Recommendation for HTML 5. http://www.w3.org/TR/#tr_HTML Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Question regarding the use of section
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Nancy Johnson njohnso...@gmail.com wrote: When I first went live with a website a few months ago, the following code validated and now it doesn't. Why? section role=main Thank you, Nancy Johnson Nancy, I'm not sure why it validated before, but generally ARIA roles do not pass validation. I'd just ignore the error in this case and just ensure that you are using the roles correctly. If that section is wrapping your main content, and it contains a heading of some sort (h1 fer example) tag, you're good to go. Smarter thoughts than mine from Steve Faulkner: http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2009/01/how-can-i-validate-xhtml-aria/ Tim -- tim.arn...@gmail.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Question regarding the use of section
AFAIK, Section's role is implied but if you want to make it specific then you should be using DIV. For example this code would validate: div id=section role=main This is a section of my page! /div Lots of HTML tags will not accept the role attribute. Don't know why but it could be because their meaning is obvious. H tags are for headings so it won't accept role attribute. --- On Thu, 18/4/13, Nancy Johnson njohnso...@gmail.com wrote: When I first went live with a website a few months ago, the following code validated and now it doesn't. Why? section role=main __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
