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Can you explain in what ways it is simpler to change 1 to 2 in the first case? Is it that you are mutating them via script and it seems more "normal" to mutate
by esrauch 10y ago
Can you explain in what ways it is simpler to change 1 to 2 in the first case? Is it that you are mutating them via script and it seems more "normal" to mutate a property of a tag instead of the tagname?
Or is it because it might have a named closing tag and you have to update both?
- tyingq 10y agoYou can't change a tag name with a script. You have to destroy it and create a new one, being sure to copy attributes and the inner html, then, inserting the new one in the right spot. That's not only more work at a script level, I assume it's much more disruptive at a browser internals perspective regarding reflow, etc. Using an attribute would also allow you to programmatically get the nested level from the dom if the browser had "levelled" the <h> tags on it's own. Lacking that, I don't think you could tell what the browser ended up doing. Edit: It basically comes down to whether you're okay with the browser auto calculating the level of <h>, and then not having any programmatic access to what it decided. If you don't care, then <h> without an attribute works fine.
- walterstucco 10y agothen add data-level=N to H1…