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Bug 17069 - It would be nice to have a very brief and clear explanation of the distinction and relationship between <section>, <article> and <hgroup>. As if now it is rather confusing.
Summary: It would be nice to have a very brief and clear explanation of the distinctio...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-05-15 17:38 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-26 00:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-05-15 17:38:27 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-section-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-section-element

Comment:
It would be nice to have a very brief and clear explanation of the distinction
and relationship between <section>, <article> and <hgroup>. As if now it is
rather confusing. 

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:31:04 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18167 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-26 00:01:58 UTC 
Does this section help?

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#usage-summary-0
Comment 3 contributor 2012-09-26 00:02:07 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7404.
Check-in comment: Try adding a usage summary for the section elements.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7403&to=7404