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Posted by Omar Emara
Omar Emara
18,249 Points

What does the <section> element do?

What does the <section> element do?

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points

Hi Omar.

The section element serves the same purpose as the div element and is simply a container for a piece of content.

But when HTML5 was released it introduced what were called Semantic elements. section, article, aside, header and footer.

So 

<section> <!--  HTML CONTENT --><div>

is the same as 

<div><!--  HTML CONTENT --></div>

its just a way of better organising our HTML code. :-)

Omar Emara
Omar Emara
18,249 Points

Thanks very much!! :D