HTML5 for Web Designers
A Book Apart, HTML5 for Web Designers
“It’s helpful to think of header, footer, nav and aside as being specialized forms of the section element. A section is a generic chunk of related content, while headers, footers, navs and asides are chunks of specific kinds of related content.”
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