Comments on: The section element

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:42:28 +0000

I wondering how html5 will be effected when semantic search comes in and if search engines will still use link distribution as a form of authority. I've used the section element estensivly in my site about how to build a website it is a bit basic put if you pull it apart it can work well. Thanks for the tips Bruce

By: Bruce Lawson

Bruce Lawson — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:00:35 +0000

Not at all, Derpa. You might use menu and command elements. Or the being-specified dialog element for dialogues – http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Dialogs

Article is for re-usable widgets, too – I imagine that web apps use many of these.

By: Derpa

Derpa — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:53:48 +0000

* use

forever

By: Derpa

Derpa — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:52:04 +0000

So what about the small percentage of us who are using HTML to make things OTHER than blogs and news sites? You know, custom tool panels and web applications and such for which your ‘section’ and ‘article’ and ‘aside’ rules are semantically meaningless. Are we just supposed to screw off and use forever?

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By: Chris LeBlanc

Chris LeBlanc — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:01:07 +0000

Thanks so much for this discussion.

Something minute. The word technology is misspelled in your article…

By: Alohci

Alohci — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:14:30 +0000

@boomshanka – that would be the element.

By: boomshanka

boomshanka — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:13:09 +0000

Hi Bruce,

Great article (in lack of a better word). I just have one question regarding the outliner tool: When I validate it against http://www.copenhagenfive.com it shows a single untitled entry, but the site does not use section, nav or aside – only header, figure, figcaption and footer. So which one is triggering the untitled entry?

By: Markus

Markus — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:48:45 +0000

You can also use schema.org to mark the main content of a web page, because the Web Page-Element has a mainContentOfPage Attribute.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:50:29 +0000

Thanks Dr. Oli,

That flow chart will help a lot. I’ve also been reading through other articles here and one at smashing.com that have helped me see that I was looking at things from the wrong perspective at times. I’ll read the common mistakes link you provided also.

I have been looking at section in terms of when a developer looks at my code it will be easy to spot the top, middle, bottom, sections and so on. These would be sections inside the main content wrap. So yeah, total misunderstanding on who I am trying to be semantic for, on my part. And maybe some misunderstanding of the definition of semantics too.

At any rate, it’s making more sense as I read the articles here. You guys have a lot of good information.

Thanks