In my last post, I discussed Introduction to HTML5, where we looked at some of the new features of HTML5. Today, we will be looking at Which to Use: article vs section.
Using these new HTML5 elements can be confusing at times (I was confused to when I first started using them). But going by the semantic definitions of <article> and <section>, you will know the right to use.
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Article can be considered a special form of section . It is intended to contain contents that are independent, that is, content that can stand alone outside of the surrounding content. Example of such content that could be contained within the <article> tag is blog posts. These self-contained contents are not limited to blog posts alone, they can also contain news articles, blog comments, videos etc.
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