Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:22 UTC
Like <h1 class="firstHeading">, a <p class="firstParagraph"> should be really useful for javascript catchers. When there are diambiguations links or pictures between the first heading and the first paragraph, the javascript for catch the first paragraph becomes very tricky, and a simple class or id could make it more simple. Furthermore, because the first paragraph have a special status in a wikipedia page (bounds the #toc, defines the subject, includes the infobox, etc.) a DOM identifer could help in many other cases.
i set the priority high beause this problem stops me in a javascript i'm coding. I don't know exactly how priority grading system works, so feel free to change it.
The first <p> is exactly that, the first <p>. JavaScript can trivially be written to retrieve it, for instance (not tested but you get the idea): element = document.getElementById( 'bodyContent' ).firstChild; while( true ) { if( element.nodeType == 1 && element.nodeName == 'p' ) break; else element = element.nextSibling(); } This looks like an extremely narrow request that would be of use to very few.
