Comments on: The header element

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:35:33 +0000

This is nice article,

Now every one know about html5. but I am little bit confuse about header tag. you are saying that we can use header tag for group of headings or section headings. but we have hgroup tag for group of headings and If we have about us section with page title and paragraphs, We are using h1 for page title so we really want header tag outside the h1 tag? because h1 already have more importance.

What I am thinking that for hole page we can use header tag for page header that will contain logo, navigation, top links, etc. and If we have any big section inside that page, like table or any thumb listing we can use header tag for that table or thumb listing head that will contain heading of that section, sorting, pagination, etc.

Is this right? help me to get right direction.

Thanks,
Pankaj Chavan

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By: Manu medina

Manu medina — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:53:34 +0000

Very good explication, if you want to find more information about the html5 layout in Spanish you can check this presentation:

http://www.maspixel.com/2011/04/charla-formativa-sobre-html5/

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:07:59 +0000

I just read about optimizing browser rendering and it says using tags in css is very inefficient. In that case it seems to be better to use some instead of the new tag . Or, of course, use some classes for the different headers, if you use several ones.
http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rendering.html#UseEfficientCSSSelectors

By: Jarrod Placide-Raymond

Jarrod Placide-Raymond — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:38:21 +0000

@Stephen, I believe that header, and other tags such as ‘section’ and ‘aside’, etc are more descriptions of content than they are styling information. CSS’s job is to style the look of the content, but the description of content was formerly XML’s job, hence the bland combination that led to XHTML 4.01.

It is now merely given to us in the HTML5 toolkit, if you wish to describe it as such.

By: stephen

stephen — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:15:45 +0000

Alright, so header is used to define that a section of a website belongs at the top of the document… But isn’t that essentially styling information? Sure the header won’t actually style itself or anything, but the location of elements in pages is something I’d always thought was css’s job, while html should just define the content of the information.

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By: derry

derry — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:23:52 +0000

HTML5 semantic resources so needed right now – many websites state they are html5 but in fact are still full of random divs and in no order whatsoever and with no additional value: Actually including my own site is still lacking because I got the order of Section and Article wrong!

Keep up the good work!

By: eric

eric — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:05:52 +0000

@thecat: it depends on the complexity of the section. The more complex it is, the more necessary the header element becomes. For example, a title of the webpage (logo, navigation, search etc.) should have a header because it encompasses the whole page. A mere section or article, however, are generally pretty simple (though not always) and generally don’t need a header element. An h1 would do fine in those cases. However, it’s up to your discretion. A header certainly wouldn’t hurt; it would just add to your markup, which is something you may not want.

By: thecat

thecat — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:22:49 +0000

What if I have a section and it has only one header as in

… do I just use

? Or:

Or do I use

only if I have more than 1 header element?