- You may omit the
<header>and it's decendants if it's only a sole headline and replace it with<h1>. - In this example the navigation
<nav>is a page specific navigation, hence after the page header<header>. If the<nav>is a global navigation, it might also be before the first page header<header>.
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Standard HTML5 Semantic Layout
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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <meta charset="utf-8" /> | |
| <title>Title</title> | |
| <link href="stylesheets/main.css" rel="stylesheet" /> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <header> | |
| <hgroup> | |
| <h1>Header</h1> | |
| <h2>Subheader</h2> | |
| </hgroup> | |
| </header> | |
| <nav> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li><a href="#">Menu Option 1</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="#">Menu Option 2</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| </nav> | |
| <section> | |
| <article> | |
| <header> | |
| <h1>Article #1</h1> | |
| </header> | |
| <section> | |
| This is the first article. | |
| </section> | |
| </article> | |
| <article> | |
| <header> | |
| <h1>Article #2</h1> | |
| </header> | |
| <section> | |
| This is the second article. | |
| </section> | |
| </article> | |
| </section> | |
| <aside> | |
| <section> | |
| <h1>Links</h1> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li> | |
| <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li> | |
| </ul> | |
| </section> | |
| <figure> | |
| <img width="85" height="85" | |
| src="http://domain.tld/path/to/image.jpg" | |
| alt="foobar" /> | |
| <figcaption>Foobar</figcaption> | |
| </figure> | |
| </aside> | |
| <footer>Footer</footer> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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| +-----------------------------------+ | |
| | header | | |
| +-----------------------------------+ | |
| | nav | | |
| +---------------------+-------------+ | |
| | | | | |
| | section | aside | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | +-----------------+ | | | |
| | | article | | | | |
| | +-----------------+ | | | |
| | | article | | | | |
| | +-----------------+ | | | |
| +---------------------+-------------+ | |
| | footer | | |
| +-----------------------------------+ |
@TheDefinitionist, I was just about to ask the same. According to W3C, "A main landmark identifies the primary content of the page."
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Where is main tag