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section Description:

The section tag defines a section of the document.

The section tag is new in HTML 5.

DTD: HTML5: <!doctype html>

section Web Browser Support:

Coming soon

section Attributes:

Global attributes, event attributes

section End Tag:

Required

section Contents:

Text

Tags valid as content: Flow elements and character data

section Usage:

Tags valid as container: Flow elements

section Special Notes:

  • A section represents any type of section within a document, such as chapters, headers, footers, and so on.
  • Most sections will have a title or heading of their own.
  • It is possible to have sub-sections, and nesting section tags.
  • The section tag should not be a descendant of the footer or address element.

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