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This was was cloned from bug 15730 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-01-26 15:47:00 +0000 Original reporter: Ian Yang <ian.html@gmail.com> ================================================================================ #0 Ian Yang 2012-01-26 15:47:01 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While coding for the content of a blog post, we have <header> to wrap heading, author, and publish time; And we have <footer> to wrap categories links and other metadata; However, we currently don't have <content> to wrap paragraphs and figures. Therefore, maybe we could have <content> introduced. ================================================================================ #1 Ian Devlin 2012-01-26 16:03:25 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But there are the <section> and <article> elements available to wrap such things? If you have a <header>, <footer> and several <aside>s in an <article> or <section>, than everything else IS content. Process of elimination. ================================================================================ #2 Ian Yang 2012-01-26 16:36:28 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Process of elimination is okay. However, without being wrapped by a <content> tag, all content elements look like they are at the same level as <header> and <footer> elements. If we have the <content> tag to wrap all those various content elements, our mockup will looks cleaner and tidier. ================================================================================
Use <div> if you must have something. It's not semantically necessary though.