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Let's continue organizing & structuring our content into logical bits using HTML's content sectioning elements. In this video, you'll learn how to use the <article>, <nav>, and <aside> tags in your projects.
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All right, let's keep
on organizing and
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structuring our content into logical bits
using HTML's content sectioning elements.
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In this video, you'll learn how
to use the article, nav, and
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aside tags in your projects.
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So the article section of our page
contains groups of individual
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blog entries that link to the full post.
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Now even though they all
have a common theme, VR,
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each entry represents an independent
stand-alone article in our webpage,
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so we should use markup
to contain each entry.
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The article sectioning element describes
self-contained pieces of content
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like our blog entries.
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So let's place opening and closing article
tags around each of the two entries.
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So I'll place the opening article
tag just above the h3 of our
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first blog entry, and
the closing article tag below its link.
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I'll select and indent the content,
and do the same for our next entry.
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So each article now represents a complete
or self-contained unit on the page
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that can make sense on its own, even when
displayed on another website or blog.
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So for example, an article in
a magazine or newspaper can be
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plucked out of the pages and still be read
and understood by readers, even though
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a reader may not know which magazine or
newspaper the article came from.
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The article still makes sense on its own
because it contains a heading, content,
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and information about the article
like the publish date and author.
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So an article element should wrap
content that could be syndicated and
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pulled into another website, or
linked to via social media, or
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a news aggregation site like reddit.com.
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And this includes individual blog posts,
magazine and news articles,
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forum posts or any
independent chunk of content.
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In addition,
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article elements should always include
a heading that identifies the article.
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Now another sectioning element, with
a very specific purpose, is the nav tag.
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When a section of your page contains
a list of links to other pages, or
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to parts within the page, you should
use markup to communicate that it's
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an important section
containing navigation links.
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The nav element describes just that,
a navigation or set of related links.
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Currently, our site
navigation uses the ul or
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unordered list tag to
display the list of links.
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So let's wrap the ul in the header
with opening and closing nav tags.
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You should use the nav element only for
major sections of navigation, not for
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every link to another page or website.
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However it is okay to have more
than one nav element on a page.
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For example, you might have a navigation
element that includes links to the major
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parts of your website in the header and
a nav element in the footer
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that links to pages with different
information about your company.
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The nav element also helps
users who navigate and
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read your site using
assistive technologies,
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like screen readers, quickly and easily
find the navigation sections of your site.
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Lastly, let me show you the aside tag.
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It's used for
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sectioning content that's sort of related
to the main topic of the page, but
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could be removed without affecting a
user's understanding of the main content.
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So this is content you'll often see
presented as a sidebar on a website.
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For example,
you could use the aside element to include
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your Twitter feed on a page or a list or
related articles or resources.
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In fact,
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we have a list of top resources just
above the contact section of our page.
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And this content isn't directly related to
the main content sections of our site, but
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it does hold content that is
related to the entire page.
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So let's group the h3 and
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ol elements inside a set of opening and
closing aside tags.
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So when you need to section content that's
not the main focus of the page but is
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still related or complimentary to the page
as a whole, place the content in an aside.
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