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formerEditors

Type: Person[] Default: []

An array of person objects listing past editors of the document. Shown below the current editors list.

Basic usage

var respecConfig = {
  editors: [
    { name: "Alice Smith", company: "Example Corp", w3cid: 11111 },
  ],
  formerEditors: [
    { name: "Bob Jones", company: "Old Corp", w3cid: 22222 },
    { name: "Carol White", retiredDate: "2022-06-30", w3cid: 33333 },
  ],
};

Notes

  • Use formerEditors to keep a clean current editors list while acknowledging past contributors
  • Alternatively, add a retiredDate to a person in editors to show them inline as "until [date]"
  • See person for full documentation of person object fields

Guides

Configuration options

W3C Configuration options

Linting rules

Internal properties

Handled by ReSpec for you.

Special <section> IDs

HTML elements

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HTML attributes

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