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Posted by stuartmackinnon
stuartmackinnon
4,450 Points

Should I Div Container or Wrapper for Semantic Mark up 2020

I am trying to Relearn Web Dev again and I am going over the newer html 5 elements and noticed that there are lots of newer tags that helps with screen readers so my question is should I use a <div id="container></div> to contain the whole website or should I now use <wrapper></wrapper> for this propose

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

There is no wrapper element in HTML.

You might want to use something like 

<main id="wrapper"></main>

To use a containing wrapper element in your code. That has a more semantic meaning that a general <div> element. But keep in mind that within reason there's no right or wrong way to define semantic markup, which is to say that the makeup of your HTML document depends on the needs of your project. 😊

stuartmackinnon
stuartmackinnon
4,450 Points
stuartmackinnon
stuartmackinnon
4,450 Points

Thank you for your reply I will use the <main id="wrapper"></main> as my main container from now on thank you for your help