Why non <div>'s allowed in page-footer?

[dense-set]

While creating a website project, I noted that the left, right, center suboptions of the page-footer only seem to accept <span>'s and not <div>'s.

If I use

page-footer: |
    <div>abc</div>

I don't get anything in the footer:

<footer class="footer">
  <div class="nav-footer">
    <div class="nav-footer-left">
      &nbsp;
    </div>   
    <div class="nav-footer-center"></div>
    <div class="nav-footer-right">
      &nbsp;
    </div>
  </div>
</footer>

Only when I use <span> instead of <div> does it "correctly" produce:

<div class="nav-footer-center"><span>abc</span></div>

Why is this so?

[cderv]

Not sure why, but if you add something after the div (like text or something else), it shows.

  page-footer: |
      <div>abc</div>
      Content

[mcanouil]

Completely related to:

• Enhancement: quarto-navigation-envelope for block elements (can't put block tags in footer) #5604

CC. @cscheid

[mcanouil]

@dense-set were you using 1.3 or earlier version?

[dense-set]

No, v1.3.433.

[mcanouil]

So you need 1.4 pre-release.