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Aug 4, 2011 · If a section contains another section, a h1-header in the inner section is displayed in a smaller font than a h1- header in outer section. When using div instead of section the inner div h1-header is diplayed as h1.
Oct 9, 2019 · The title uses the appropriate tag, h1. The userbar, being a section, is wrapped in a div. Within that, the username is wrapped in a span, so that I can change the style. As you can see, I have also wrapped a span around 2 letters in the title - this allows me to change their color in my stylesheet.
Nov 25, 2015 · 24. The <section> tag: The section tag defines sections in a document, such as chapters, headers, footers, or any other sections of the document. The <article> tag: The article tag specifies independent, self-contained content.
Mar 19, 2016 · <nav> meant for more semantic markup (letting the browser know) that those links aren't just normal links, they are a navigation menu.
Jan 18, 2014 · 1. SECTION is semantic markup - it has meaning. You are meant to use it to hold a section of a page. Other semantic markup tags include <header>, <footer>, <nav> and <aside>. A DIV is purely a structural element - it has no implied meaning about what its content is meant to be. You can style a section using CSS to do whatever you like.
Jan 24, 2011 · 44. This boilerplate structure is not worth the space on this page. 1) None of the mentioned HTML elements are tied to any position in a document. 2) It falsely implies that <header> and <footer> are document level elements. 3) It falsely implies that <section> is intended as <article>-child only. @DanDascalescu.
Jan 6, 2016 · <section> — a generic document or application section. A <section> normally has a heading (title) and maybe a footer too. It’s a chunk of related content, like a subsection of a long article, a major part of the page (eg the news section on the homepage), or a page in a webapp’s tabbed interface.
Oct 30, 2019 · 0. They express different semantics. Articles are articles. Sections are sections. And divs are generic blocks with no semantics. The semantics are used by tools like screen readers, search engines, and so on to identify what content is what.
Aug 16, 2011 · What's the difference between them? Edit: The odd part is, they both do what I want to the stuff above them in the page. I mean, in the self-closing div tag's case, if I remove it entirely the page definitely reacts, so it must be doing SOMETHING with it and not just ignoring it completely.
What is the difference between the div tag and the new HTML5 aside tag? W3Schools has a very similar description for the two - Aside; Div; I have also seen many sites use the aside tag where a div tag would be perfectly fine. Although, when I put them both into practise, they behave the same way, like so:
