div id=”page-wrap” should be section on HTML5?

[Rai]

Hi !,

What do you think?,

How we should use the typical

in HTML5?

it should be a section?, like

...

Post your comments.

[Brightonmike]

Pardon? Could you please re-phrase?

[Rai]

And now?,

[jamygolden]

Hmmm. I’m not 100% sure, but I use div since it isn’t necessarily a ‘section’.

[WouterJ]

You cann’t say it without more information.

The main difference between a <div> or a <section> tag is that the section had a semantic meaning and the div tag not. So if the #page-wrap is only a container with nothing special you should use the div tag, but if it’s important for the code (for instance this content #page-wrap) you should use the section tag.

A nice link: http://html5doctor.com/avoiding-common-html5-mistakes/

[Rai]

I´m not sure about it. This is what w3c say about section:

“The section element represents a generic section of a document or application. A section, in this context, is a thematic grouping of content, typically with a heading”.

[Rai]

Why I´m asking this is because w3c strongly recommend use elements instead of a div so I think if we use so much things like “page-wrap” it should be a element for that.

[Rai]

Thanks Wouter!,
I will take the div tag option.

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