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Tati Gvozdik
Tati Gvozdik
746 Points
Posted by Tati Gvozdik
Tati Gvozdik
746 Points

Why Guil doesn't use <main> section when he uses <article> ?

Why Guil doesn't use <main> section when he uses <article> in his video "Marking Up a Blog Post"? He has mentioned that "an article is a self contained component in a page". So what? I don't need use <main> section after this?

Matthew Lawson
Matthew Lawson
7,283 Points
Matthew Lawson
Matthew Lawson
7,283 Points

I guess you could use the <main> tag if you wanted to add any particular style elements to the main area of the page.

2 Answers

Emmanuel Molina
Emmanuel Molina
9,268 Points
Emmanuel Molina
Emmanuel Molina
9,268 Points

According to the W3C specification there is only one <main> per page and it must never has an <article> as a parent.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-main-element

But the MDN partially disagree :

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/main

Choose your side :)

Guil Hernandez
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Guil Hernandez
Treehouse Teacher
Guil Hernandez
Guil Hernandez
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Tati Gvozdik,

You could also use <main>. I used <article> to represent a full self-contained composition.