It is used to define an independent and self-contained element within a document. In other words, it should make sense on its own and can be distributed or reused independently of the rest of the site.
Examples of <article> can be a news item from a newspaper, a blog post, a forum post, a product card, a comment sent by a user, an interactive widget...
Typically, although not required, it usually has a header (<h1>-<h6>) that identifies each <article> in the document.
They can be nested, such as each comment on a blog post would be an <article> related to a superior <article>, which would be the post.
To indicate the author of an <article> you can use <address> (although the <article> nested inside it would not inherit it) and to indicate the publication date we would use the <time> with its datetime attribute.
Has an implicit ARIA role article.
- Type: block
- Self-closing: No
- Semantic value: Yes
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