<samp> is used incorrectly

[andybrewer]

is used incorrectly

from mvp.

[chris-morgan]

@DiemenDesign: incidentally, that document is thoroughly obsolete (though it hasn’t changed terribly much since then). https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-samp-element is the current spec. Remember also that most of the specification is intended for implementers (browsers, &c.) rather than authors (yeah, even when looking at the authors edition of the spec which shifts the balance a little). With that understanding, I see no mess at all. MDN is agreed upon by browser makers as the canonical (though non-normative) source of information for document authors; see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/samp.

[philp]

Inclined to agree here. Even though you might have semantic HTML, styling any element within a <p> as display: block is still considered semantically incorrect.

Nothing wrong with <p><samp>...</samp></p> though, which gives you best of both worlds!

[andybrewer]

Thanks @chris-morgan ! This was a tricky one for me to decide on and I saw different articles recommending different approaches. I think I was trying to be too clever in ditching the <pre> tag. I'll make a fix in the next version.

[DiemenDesign]

Love Mozilla myself, have you checked what W3C says about the <samp/> element?
https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-author-20110809/the-samp-element.html
Wish they would redesign and reformat their documentation, it's such a mess.

[andybrewer]

Thank you @chris-morgan - just implemented this in v1.1