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James Ford
James Ford

Reputation: 949

HTML5 <section> with asp.net MVC

I am rewriting some of my asp.net MVC projects into html5, and I am getting confused about the <section> element. When should I use it? The <header> and <footer> elements makes sence ofcourse, but I dont really know when to use <section>. Before I used a main div to wrap all the partial views to a MasterView.

Wouldnt <section> fit for showing the partial views of a MasterView? I have read some about section and It seems like it should consist of a header and a footer which will be quite tending for a partial view?

The structure for the MasterView would be:

---<header>

------ <nav>

---<section>

------- here goes partial views with their own divs.

---<footer>

Is this a good approach?

Thanks,

James Ford

Upvotes: 1

Views: 822

Answers (1)

Oded
Oded

Reputation: 498904

From the spec:

The section element represents a generic document or application section… The section element is not a generic container element. When an element is needed for styling purposes or as a convenience for scripting, authors are encouraged to use the div element instead.

So, if the main intent of the original divs is to help with styling/scripting, you should keep using divs. If it genuinely a way to separate sections of the page, use sections.

Upvotes: 2

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