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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Create Navigation with Lists

Bimarsh Sapkota
Bimarsh Sapkota
164 Points
Posted by Bimarsh Sapkota
Bimarsh Sapkota
164 Points

<nav> element

I am really not sure about this element and where to insert it. I am stuck in this...

2 Answers

Pedro GCA
Pedro GCA
20,683 Points
Pedro GCA
Pedro GCA
20,683 Points

Hello Bimarsh, usually the nav element is used to identify the menu of your website. It also usually goes inside the tag header. It is just a kind of identifier and helps you to keep your code organized. Despite the name being different, it works in a very similar way of div id="nav".

Arthur Verschaeve
Arthur Verschaeve
20,816 Points
Arthur Verschaeve
Arthur Verschaeve
20,816 Points

The nav element stands for navigation. The navigation of a website is mostly used to travel between sections/pages of the website. It's a html element, just like a <div> is one, and it can contain any other elements. In most sites the <nav> element contains a set of links. Notice that <nav> is part of HTML5, and you need to use a shim if you want to get it working in old browsers.