On 2012-11-07 23:41, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Ben Schwarz wrote:
What does concern me, as a web builder, *every day*, is how I markup the
content in-between a <header> and a <footer>.
If you just want it for styling purposes, <div> is perfect.
<article>
<header>h1, h2, p</header>
<div class="content"></div>
<footer>time, a.permalink</footer>
</article>
Exactly like that (or even without the class, if you just have one per
article you can just do "article > div" to select it).
I've begun to do this a lot now, the less I have to use class= or id=
for styling the better.
In one of my current projects I'm basically only using id= for actual
anchor/indedx use, and no class= at all.
In fact except the few id= for index shortcuts the stylingin is all done
in the .css and the only css referencve in the html document is the
inclusion of the css link url.
I guess you could call it "stealth css" as looking at the html document
does not reveal that css is used at all (except the css link in the html
header)
I wish more webauthors would do this, makes for very clean html indeed.
Now back to the topic (sorry for getting sidetracked).
As to the <main> thing, the only time I'd ever be for adding that to
HTML markup was if it would be specced per the following.
<main> and </main> encloses the content of a document, can be used in
place of a <div> or <article> but can only occur once in a document.
If more than one instance of <main> and </main> block is encounctered,
then parsers should only accept the first and ignore any others.
If no <main> then the content in the document itself is considered the
main content.
Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't a <main> sort of be a synonym for
<body> almost? *scratches head*
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