It’s a shame, because I really like that you can just drop these boolean attributes into an element and they’re true because they’re there. Inside main I use an article for a single page/post OR a section of articles for blog/archive pages.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed. For the great HTML vs XHTML closing slashes/talisman debate, check out Dr Bruce’s article HTML 5 + XML = XHTML 5.
body The definition of main proposed by Ian does not identify the main content of the document, so cannot be used as a programmatic indicator of the main content of the document or indeed as the main content of anything.
Having read through the bug thread Hixie links to, I can’t help feeling that the WHATWG definition is liable to create a mismatch between web author expectations and AT user expectations. Regarding images and image galleries, what would be the most proper way to display a set of images and captions on a page if those images are the primary content? It’s the same as saying
. Note that nothing in ARIA prevents multiple elements from having the same landmark role.
Within each of these divs there is a header with navs, a main with sections and a footer and so on. Except where in the script tags they seem to be closed twice?? we should not mix HTML and WAI-ARIA but leave them to handle what each does best – avoiding assumptions that HTML will handle the accessibility (WAI-ARIA is Not not needed). well I’ve noticed some of my frequent errors but I’m still learning the HTML5 so this article was very useful, thanks. Semantics, really?
Long story short I’m building a site for a online magazine.
Itâs been argued that itâs unnecessary and pages should permit more than one main tag. I propose we call this spec “HTML5.”
The Web Evolved: A new book on HTML5 & CSS3 by Richard Clark, Oli Studholme, Christopher Murphy and Divya Manian. /section @Reinaldo: It is not wrong for you to add classes to sections in order to style them; what @Dr. Clark is saying is don’t use the section tag to create generic wrapper elements to hang style hooks from.
Thanks Steve, But how to styling role=”main” ? How to change article section to main element ? The WC3 version requires not to be nested to an , , , , or element, and that it be Unique. new data I recently gathered on use of role=main and the main element further supports the view that developers/authors working definition of main matches the W3C HTML definition. The parser will still see the required attribute and implement the behaviour even though you tried to tell it not to. One thing screen reader users can’t do is determine where the principal content of the page starts/ends. Taking snapshots, is likely to result in incorrect assessment or over the top backend coding. Your boss’s car breaks down, and he wants it repaired. The content of a
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Would that be semantic or keep using div as the page wrapper. Learn more. so, arguably, since it allows for the user to skip past inner bits of the content that aren’t “main” content (I’ve often seen articles have “skip to next
Sure HTML can describe much more than a “pretty picture” page for someone’s website, but ideas like for instance, doing the cardinal sin of using tables for layout, sure its “bad” practice and not what tables are meant for but people know how to use them to keep things lined up without having to do all that CSS styling (and still maybe having it look wrong). required="" And is also contradictory to another HTML5 doctor post, http://html5doctor.com/the-article-element/. You’re welcome to your opinion of how best to help authors use the element, but please don’t just lie about what other specs say.
This seems quite common in WordPress themes. From looking at publicly available data sets I am not seeing the markup patterns you describe being used for the purpose you describe.
If you’re looking for a page wrapper element (for any flavour of HTML or XHTML), consider applying styles directly to the element as described by Kroc Camen. You can always update your selection by clicking Cookie Preferences at the bottom of the page. I even put an additional query of html5.js from google in my but ie8 doesn’t recognize any styles on my
but I think it failed in every other respect and I hope many of the more useless elements become deprecated in the inevitable HTML6. – main (correct XHTML) Alice, main isn’t sectioning content, so it doesn’t make sense to add it to that flowchart. Copyright © 2020 HTML5 Doctor. “@Léonie The main element is distinct from the section and article elements in that the main element does not contribute to the document outline. which will only match a main element with a role attribute set to main. – header While it isn’t really a mistake, I believe it’s best practice to avoid this pattern.
Ian is a major contributor to HTML but does not have the last word on the specification of HTML, which is understandably frustrating for him.
html role=main
. The main content area consists of content that is directly related to or expands upon the central topic of a document, or the central functionality of an application.