What is a header tag in html 5? In your own explanation.

Hey Chris Upjohn,

I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way but I disliked that link immensely. The explanation was poor at best and the examples unhelpful. I found MDN to have done a much better job here.

MDN <header>

I hope that doesn't come across as derogatory, I simply found that resource very lacking.

Goodluck! --Ricky

Thanks Chris Upjohn for responding i saw this definition earlier from an other source and the word that confuses me is the word introductory from the following definition from below

"The header tag element represents a group of introductory or navigational aids."

so to me it seems vague what its referring to in a html context and i play with the code from this source

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_header

To understand this more but I see no clear understanding how this tag is useful since i can do that already with a h1 tag right? just saying i was playing with that code example in the link above just saying if you can explain why this is a useful tag i will really appreciate it.

Hey I just saw your comment but couldn't you do that already with other tags? so its like the tag head? and the thing i notice about that header tag when i was playing with it in this site a code generator site

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_header

is that it has the p tag and h1 h3 tags in it that's where i got confuse today your comment makes sense more but from this site it threw me off =Q just saying because when i erased the header tag and saw the results it still looks the same if i would of not use the header tag I still don't see how you can have any use for this if you can do the same thing with out that header tag

It is simply a containing block. If there is not CSS styling on it removing it wont matter. It all depends on how you build your site. Sometimes it is needed sometimes not.

Goodluck! --Ricky