New Semantic Elements

To indicate navigation, header, and footer, many webpages contain HTML code such as:

HTML5 offers a more efficient system with new semantic elements to define these parts of a webpage:

  • <article>
  • <aside>
  • <details>
  • <figcaption>
  • <figure>
  • <footer>
  • <header>
  • <main>
  • <mark>
  • <nav>
  • <section>
  • <summary>
  • <time>
HTML5 Semantic Elements

Some of these elements were briefly covered here.

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