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HTML

Posted by Mark Singleton
Mark Singleton
5,182 Points

Why are we using DIVs?

If this is HTML 5 (as Nick says at the beginning of the video), why aren't we using the new structural tags such as <section> <header> <body> <nav> instead of DIVs?

Sandra Vos
Sandra Vos
21,652 Points

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe those new tags (you mean section etc?) have semantic use. For example Google can read your content better because of them.

1 Answer

Tomas Pavlik
Tomas Pavlik
26,726 Points

Div is considered a last instance element. If you can't use any other semantic elements like section or article or nav or aside, you can use div. However, using divs is not a mistake. You can use them if you want, but if another element is more appropriate, you should use this element - section etc.